| DESCRIBED | Painted a verbal picture of (9) |
| DESCRIBE | Draw a verbal picture of (8) |
| BROADSIDE | The guns on one half of a warship; the salvo of said armament; a verbal attack; or, historically, a sheet of paper printed with a ballad, proclamation etc, on one surface only (9) |
| CANALETTO | He painted a European in a boat, mostly (9) |
| IDEALIZED | Painted a rosy picture of |
| IDEALISED | Painted a rosy picture at institute for De Sade stumbling around Long Island (9) |
| AMARANTHS | A verbal onslaught in revolutionary fiction with lots of love, lies, bleeding? (9) |
| CESTLAVIE | A vile sect makes a verbal 22 (4,2,3) |
| UTTERANCE | A verbal vocalisation (9) |
| LASHEDOUT | Yahoo, carrying contents of urn, launches a verbal attack (6,3) |
| DEKOONING | Which US abstract expressionist painted a series in the 1950s called Woman? (2,7) |
| RETICENCE | A verbal reservation? |
| DISSEMBLE | Do a verbal tap dance |
| THEGRANDMASTERS | If a picture paints a thousand words, these words are of those who painted a thousand pictures! (3,5,7) |
| PLUS | A verbal rendering of the sign +, meaning "with the addition of", hence found in the name of baggy knickerbockers made with an extra four inches of fabric added to create an overhang at the knee (4) |
| ROSSETTI | Dante Gabriel -; co-founder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood who painted a number of pictures of William Morris' wife Jane (8) |
| KNELLER | Sir Godfrey -; artist who painted a series of portraits of members of the Kit-Cat Club (7) |
| GLASS | Transparent material upon which Thomas Gainsborough painted a series of landscapes in oils to be viewed by means of a purposebuilt candlelit "showbox" (5) |
| ANDREW | Article painted a picture of apostle |
| DADO | Lower panel of a wall, painted a different colour (4) |
