| TIEPOLO | Painter whose magnum opus in paint on the ceiling at the Wurzburg Residence of the continents Africa, America, Asia and Europe is the world's largest fresco (7) |
| PROUST | Marcel -, French author whose 3,200-page magnum opus In Search of Lost Time is officially the world's longest novel (6) |
| NEWTON | Scientist whose magnum opus Principia was published by the Royal Society with the help of Edmond Halley in 1687 and remains one of the world's most influential works |
| MISTLETOE | Sprig dangling from the ceiling at Christmas |
| CRUMBLING | Falling down ceiling at first sounding like thunder (9) |
| LEBRUN | A founding member of the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture noted for his paintings on the ceiling of the Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles (2,4) |
| ARGENTINA | Second- largest country of South America, occupying most of the southern half of the continent east of the Andes (9) |
| COIRMATS | Layers of paint, on the outside of rim, wrecked floor coverings (4,4) |
| ADAM | The Creation of ___, Michelangelo painting on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel (4) |
| CENTRALEUROPE | Penny has a rule changed for the tug-of-war in the middle of the continent (7,6) |
| TIMPANI | Timothy smears most of the paint on the drums |
| PRIMERS | Elementary schoolbooks showing the first dabs of paint on the wall (7) |
| TURNER | Did he also paint on the back of the canvas? |
| ASIAN | A native of the largest of the continents (5) |
| AFRICA | Flips over account by paramilitaries holding onto force in one of the continents (6) |
| EXISTENCE | "What is hope? Nothing but paint on the face of ____" (Byron) |
| ASISEEIT | In my opinion, most of the continent get the picture (2,1,3,2) |
| TUNISIA | African country whose Cape Angela is the northernmost point of the continent (7) |
| ICE | The bedrock of the continent of Antarctica is almost completely buried under ___ (3) |
| ERICA | By morning she is on one of the continents (5) |
