| THEBLUEBOY | Portrait by Thomas Gainsborough, thought to be of Jonathan Buttle, the son of a wealthy hardware merchant |
| BACKFORMATION | Word like 'burgle' or 'buttle' |
| BLUE | The - Boy; full-length portrait by Thomas Gainsborough (4) |
| JAMES | Depicted in a portrait by John Singer Sargent, a novelist awarded the Order of Merit in 1916 who wrote The Portrait of a Lady and The Wings of the Dove (5) |
| BLUEBOY | 'The ---', painting of Jonathan Buttall by Thomas Gainsborough (4,3) |
| 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) |
| MORISOT | Depicted with violets in a portrait by Edouard Manet and married to Eugene Manet, the artist who created The Cradle, At the Ball and Summer Day who was the first woman to join the Impressionists (7) |
| FALLENSTAR | A gelatinous mass of cyanobacteria once thought to be of meteoric origin (6,4) |
| ABACUSES | Beaded precursors to the calculator, thought to be of ancient Babylonian origin (8) |
| GEORGIANA | --- Cavendish, duchess of Devonshire, the subject of paintings by Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Gainsborough (9) |
| TURNER | "Painter of light" championed by John Ruskin; he was the son of a Cockney perruquier and created The Fighting Temeraire and Norham Castle, Sunrise (6) |
| SOANE | Architect who designed the Dulwich Picture Gallery and the since re-built Bank of England; knighted in 1831, he was the son of a bricklayer (5) |
| SUDBURY | Market town in Suffolk that was the birthplace in 1727 of The Blue Boy painter Thomas Gainsborough (7) |
| IPSWICH | County town of Suffolk where Thomas Gainsborough lived before moving to the Circus in Bath (7) |
| OSSIAN | Semi-legendary Irish Gaelic poet and warrior thought to be of 3rd century AD (6) |
| CLAMBAKE | Elvis is the son of a millionaire who switches places with a water-skiing instructor in this 1967 movie |
| TRUDEAU | The son of a four-term prime minister, he became prime minister of Canada in 2015 |
| WOLSEY | Thomas, cardinal in Tudor times who was the son of a Suffolk butcher (6) |
| ANORA | 2024 film starring Mikey Madison as the titular stripper who marries the son of a Russian oligarch (5) |
| MUCH | One of Robin Hood's Merry Men, the son of a miller (4) |
