| WHISTLER | James Abbott McNeill, U.S.-born artist noted for his nocturnes of the River Thames (8) |
| MCNEILLWHISTLER | James, artist born in 1834 noted for his nocturnes or night paintings (7,8) |
| OPIE | Cornish-born artist noted for his dramatic use of chiaroscuro in paintings including A Sleeping Girl and The Murder of Rizzio (4) |
| CHRISTO | Bulgarian-born artist noted for his large-scale wrap-around installations (7) |
| FIELD | Deal with his nocturnes, perhaps? |
| TENNYSON | Poet whose The Splendour Falls or "Blow, Bugle, Blow" forms the setting of the nocturne in Benjamin Britten's Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings (8) |
| WELLCOME | Henry, U.S.-born pharmaceutical entrepreneur and philanthropist (8) |
| BANJAMINWEST | U.S.-born painter noted for The Death of General Wolfe (8,4) |
| SERENADE | Nocturne (8) |
| POTOFPAINT | One of the most celebrated trials in the history of art centered on a libel suit brought by artist James McNeill Whistler against art critic John Ruskin for using this phrase to describe Whistler's pa |
| CELESTE | U.S.-born British singer/songwriter whose debut EP was The Milk & The Honey in 2017 (7) |
| SIENNA | ___ Miller, U.S.-born British actress who played Tippi Hedren in the 2012 TV film The Girl (6) |
| TSELIOT | U.S.-born poet who wrote Old Possum's Book Of Practical Cats (1,1,5) |
| USHA | ___ Vance, lawyer and second lady of the U.S., born in 1986 (4) |
| PEACOCK | The - Room ; James McNeill Whistler's work of interior art in blue and gold (7) |
| MENUHIN | Yehudi, U.S.-born violinist and conductor of Russian Jewish extraction (7) |
| JACOBS | Marcell, U.S.-born Italian sprinter who won gold in the 2020 Olympic 100 metres (6) |
| CHOPIN | Known as the poet of the piano, composer of ballades, etudes, nocturnes, preludes, scherzos and sonatas as well as two concertos (6) |
| JOHNFIELD | Irish composer (1782-1837), pioneer of the Romantic style of piano music, especially nocturnes |
| SANSEI | U.S.-born grandchild of Japanese immigrants |
