| GRANDMAMOSES | Nickname of a painter who described her work as "old-timey" |
| BOTTICELLI | Sobriquet of a painter who worked under the patronage of the Medicis in Renaissance Florence; his works include The Birth of Venus and Primavera (10) |
| ORATORIO | Great work, as old relation steals gold (8) |
| ISHEDEAD | Mark Twain farce about a painter who fakes his own demise |
| VICTORIAWOOD | Comedy actress who described her waist as "a bit like an unmarked level crossing" |
| WILLIAM | Forename of a Lake poet who described glow-worms as Earth-born stars, an evening as beauteous and calm, a multitude of golden daffodils as a host and a crowd and himself as a lonely floating cloud (7) |
| ANNIEERNAUX | Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature who described her prose in the novel "Les Armoires Vides" as "brutally direct, working-class and sometimes obscene" (October, 2022) |
| NAOMIKLEIN | Author who described her book "Doppelganger" as being about "the horror of the society that flips fascist from within" (September, 2023) |
| GREY | Little - Rabbit; book series by Alison Uttley, author who described her youth in the memoir The Country Child (4) |
| CHANELIMAN | *Runway model famous for her work as a Victoria's Secret Angel |
| ORLAN | French multimedia artist who refers to her work as "carnal art" |
| OEUVRE | French word for the body of work of a painter, writer or composer (6) |
| ONO | Lennon reportedly described her as looking like "a bloke in drag" |
| EMMA | Austen described her as "a heroine whom no one but myself will much like" |
| RAEBURN | Anna, British broadcaster born in 1944 noted for her work as an agony aunt (7) |
| ARTIFICER | Craftsman provided to cut work of a painter and decorator |
| PICASSO | Greek character, a fool in the company of a painter (7) |
| KENNETHTYNAN | English theatre critic and writer who described a critic as "a man who knows the way but can't drive the car" |
| OGDENNASH | Poet who described a door as "what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" |
| PICTORIAL | Of a painter of pictures |
