| EDITORIALWRITER | One whose pieces are slanted |
| OPEDPAGES | Their columns are slanted |
| ITAL | Words that are slanted (Abbr) |
| COOPER | Barrel- or cask-maker; or, a ceramics designer whose pieces are sometimes marked with leaping deer symbols (6) |
| DRAUGHTS | Board game whose pieces are called kings when crowned; currents of air; or. catches of fish (8) |
| CAKE | Gateau whose pieces are typically deliciously easy to eat, thus metaphorical for a doddle or a picnic (4) |
| LOOPS | Froot ___ (cereal whose pieces are actually all the same flavor) |
| HAYDN | Composer whose pieces could come in handy (5) |
| REESES | Whose Pieces? |
| HOCKNEY | Painter and draughtsman born in Yorkshire in 1937 whose pieces include A Bigger Splash, Mr and Mrs C |
| KRUGER | Conceptual/pop artist whose pieces feature statements including "I shop therefore I am", "Your body is a battleground" and "Face It!" (6) |
| CHIPPENDALE | Cabinetmaker whose pieces form a proportion of the furniture collection at Dumfries House (approximately 10 per cent of his surviving work) (11) |
| MUNNINGS | Depicted in the 2013 film Summer in February, a painter of sporting scenes, horses and the English countryside whose pieces include The Start and My Wife, My Horse and Myself (8) |
| REDON | French symbolist painter and pastelist whose pieces include The Buddha, Butterflies, Flowers in a Turquoise Vase and Coquille (5) |
| LALIQUE | French glassmaker and jeweller in the art deco/nouveau styles whose pieces included vases, perfume bottles, ornate gemmed brooches and peignes (7) |
| CHOPIN | Frederic -; composer and virtuoso pianist whose pieces include Fantaisie-Impromptu and Minute Waltz (6) |
| OMEGA | - Workshop; design collective founded by Roger Fry whose pieces created by members including Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant were all signed (5) |
| SEEN | Alterations are made when the last pieces are viewed |
| WILLIAMS | Ralph Vaughan -; composer whose piece The Lark Ascending was inspired by George Meredith's poem of the same name (8) |
| EPSTEIN | The surname of Sir Jacob, the British sculptor whose piece Rima is displayed in Hyde Park (7) |
