| COMICOPERA | Show magazine work to head of Etchings at Royal Academy |
| OPTIMUM | It's best to give work to head teacher, though first person is expressing hesitation, perhaps |
| RATEABLE | Art school board accepts first of etchings, subject to evaluation |
| GOYA | Which Spanish artist produced Disasters of War (1810-20), a series of etchings depicting the brutali |
| CHEAP | Fellow possessing earliest of etchings worth relatively little (5) |
| EDITING | Magazine work |
| EDITS | Does some magazine work |
| EDIT | Do magazine work |
| SINATRA | Entertainer is to do badly at Royal Academy (7) |
| CHAKRA | Confused hack at Royal Academy in centre of spiritual energy (6) |
| CLEOPATRA | Legendary beauty I remove from lively police at Royal Academy (9) |
| ARTISTE | Entertainer and French model seen at Royal Academy retrospective |
| AQUATINT | A process of etching on copper, of which Goya was an exponent (8) |
| DURER | Albrecht, German painter and engraver regarded as the inventor of etching (5) |
| CARVING | An ancient art or process of etching ebony, incising ivory, modelling marble, sculpting sandstone, trimming turkey or whittling wood; or, the shaped glyphic piece duly chipped, chiselled, cleaved or c |
| ANNE | First name of a queen whose name is immortalised in a style of architecture as well as a flat race at Royal Ascot, a blend of tea and a flower with lace-like petals (4) |
| RINGTHECHANGES | Rehang etchings, possibly, to vary ways of doing things? (4,3,7) |
| TOPHAT | Head accessory worn in the Royal Enclosure at Royal Ascot, traditionally black silk plush or grey felt (3,3) |
| ENCLOSURE | Royal -; space at Royal Ascot that was originally exclusively reserved for the guests of King George III (9) |
| LANDAU | Horse-drawn carriage mainly used to convey the Queen during her annual procession at Royal Ascot but also used for state occasions and royal weddings (6) |
