| DUNANT | Sarah -, author of novels Mapping the Edge and The Birth of Venus |
| WATERS | Sarah -, author of novels Affinity and Tipping the Velvet (6) |
| OILPAINTINGS | Like "The Last Supper" and "The Birth Of Venus" , e.g. |
| CUTANDTHRUST | Lively exchange - or the use of both the edge and the point of a sword (3,3,6) |
| OSAGE | "Killers of the Flower Moon: The ___ Murders and the Birth of the F.B.I." (nonfiction book adapted into a 2023 film) |
| ACHIEVEMENT | "The death of endeavor and the birth of disgust" according to The Devil's Dictionary |
| BOTTICELLI | Sobriquet of a painter who worked under the patronage of the Medicis in Renaissance Florence; his works include The Birth of Venus and Primavera (10) |
| SANDROBOTTICELLI | Italian painter of the Early Renaissance whose masterpieces include The Birth of Venus and Primavera |
| AKIHIRO | The primary antagonist of Digimon Data Squad, and the birth name of supervillain Daken (7) |
| UFFIZI | Museum in Florence that contains the painting The Birth Of Venus (6) |
| NUDE | Like Venus in "The Birth of Venus" |
| SCALLOP | - shell; an item depicted by Sandro Botticelli in his painting The Birth of Venus (7) |
| KASAULI | Yet another hill station and the birth place of Ruskin Bond |
| SANDRO | The Birth of Venus painter Botticelli |
| WARREN | Director of ski movies such as Beyond The Edge and Endless Winter, ... Miller |
| WASHIEST | Layer of paint that is soft at the edges and faded in the extreme (8) |
| RESEAU | From the French meaning "network", a plain net ground for lace; or, a glass plate with a matrix of lines for mapping the stars (6) |
| DOROTHYHODGKIN | English scientist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964 for mapping the structure of vitamin B12 (7,7) |
| RECTANGULAR | Pizza Hut introduced their new Detroit-style pizza on Jan. 26; it's a style marked by caramelized crust, cheese all the way to the edges, and this type of shape |
| BOHEMIAN | Catch up about love on the edge and Mimi's end, such was her life (8) |
