| AJAX | Painting of a Hereford bull by John Steuart Curry (4) |
| ADHERE | Stick to some of the mad Hereford bull (6) |
| RASE | Level a Hereford house |
| STEER | A Hereford pilot? (5) |
| RUSTLE | Heist a hereford |
| ACTS | Takes the bull by the horns |
| LIFE | Word, related to the German for "body", for one's course of existence; fauna and flora collectively; a painting of a real, rather than imaginary, model; or, a biography (4) |
| ICON | From the Greek for "image", a devotional painting of a holy figure; or, by extension, a celebrity, pop star, sex symbol, sporting hero or other culturally venerated person (4) |
| GLEN | A narrow valley with a stream, such as Scotland's Affric that is held to be the setting of Sir Edwin Landseer's painting of a royal red deer stag (4) |
| TAKE | ___ the bull by the horns |
| DAUB | Just a rough painting of a bud (4) |
| NUDE | A painting of a naked human figure (4) |
| HALO | Ring of light in a painting of a saint |
| CART | Cezanne's earliest painting of a horse-drawn vehicle (4) |
| BITETHEBULLET | Take bull by horns? Grasp it in broken teeth, I bet! (4,3,6) |
| HORNS | Take the bull by the ____, expression meaning 'to tackle a difficulty without shirking' (5) |
| BITE | (& 23-across) Take the bull by the horns and the slug between the teeth (4,3,6) |
| MATADORS | Bullfighters whose task is to kill the bull by a sword thrust between the shoulder blades (8) |
| VOLUNTEERS | It's the raising of hands that'll do for those who'll take the bull by the horns! (10) |
| BUCKLEDOWN | Take the bull by the horns |
