| GESSO | Preparation of gypsum and glue used in gilding, sculpture or to prime a canvas or a wood panel (5) |
| EASEL | Tripod for a canvas or a sketchbook (5) |
| DRYAD | In mythology, what nymph inhabits a tree or a wood? (5) |
| STORMER | Fundamentally, a forceful move to capture a castle or a wood, today an impressive success or something particularly good (7) |
| SAIL | One of the sheets forming a ship's collective canvas; or, a hawk's wing (4) |
| BOWL | Vessel for cereal, punch, soup etc; or, a wood rolled on a green (4) |
| WHITE | Albumen used for meringues and clarifying stock, known as glair when used in gilding, manuscript illumination, bookbinding or tempering pigments (5) |
| GLAIR | White of an egg, especially when used as an adhesive in gilding or bookbinding (5) |
| BOLE | Recess in a wall designed to house a hive or skep of bees; a tree trunk; or, a rich clay pigment used in gilding (4) |
| LEAF | A folio of a book; a botanical structure known in its embryonic form as a cotyledon; or, gold in the form of foil, used in gilding (4) |
| IMPASTO | Mastered by Rembrandt, a technique of applying oil paints thickly with a brush or a palette knife to achieve a surface texture in relief on a canvas or panel (7) |
| ZOOGRAPHY | The description, painting or study of animals and their habits when alone or in flocks or herds - a zoic art or ology that captures creatures' likeness on a canvas or in words (9) |
| GROUND | Terra firma; a canvas or panel to which paints are applied; a cricket field or rugby stadium; or, in plural, acreage or parkland surrounding a large house (6) |
| PASTE | Glue used to make fake gems? |
| STUCCO | A weather-resistant mixture of dehydrated lime, powdered marble and glue used in decorative mouldings on buildings |
| ABETS | Primes a crime |
| SHUTTER | A louvred or solid wood panel for an external or internal window; or, a device for regulating the opening of a camera's aperture (7) |
| MONALISA | A portrait of a female with a half-smile on a poplar wood panel by Leonardo da Vinci (4,4) |
| GOLD | Produced when neutron stars collide, the noblest of all the metals which is used in gilding (4) |
| SPODDING | Using a bait rocket to prime a swim (8) |
