| MURILLO | Spanish Baroque painter whose works include Annunciation and The Immaculate Conception of the Venera |
| LIPPI | Florentine painter whose works include Annunciation, Madonna and Child with Two Angels, Mystical Nativity and, with Fra Angelico, a tondo titled The Adoration of the Magi (5) |
| JOYFUL | The Annunciation and the Visitation are two of the _ Mysteries. (6) |
| DELATOUR | Georges ?, French Baroque painter whose works include Job Taunted by his Wife and The Dice Players |
| RENI | "Divine" Italian painter whose 1627 altarpiece The Immaculate Conception includes clouds, putti and a halo of 12 stars over Mary's head (4) |
| UGOBUONCOMPAGNI | Birth name of the Pope who bestowed the Immaculate Conception as Patroness to the Philippine Islands |
| OURLADY | -- -- of the Immaculate Conception (3,4) |
| PIAGET | The Child's Conception of the World author |
| CORPOREAL | Clear poor conception of the body (9) |
| ELYSIUM | Ancient Greek conception of the afterlife (7) |
| PISANELLO | Considered the inventor of the portrait medal, Italian painter whose surviving frescos are Annunciation and Saint George and the Princess (9) |
| ANGELUS | Series of prayers in the Roman Catholic Church which commemorate the Annunciation and Incarnation (7) |
| NUNS | The Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, for example |
| LADY | --- Day, in the Christian calendar, March 25; the feast of the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary (4) |
| TENIERS | Flemish Baroque painter of peasant life whose works include Village Festival and Card Players (7) |
| LADYDAY | March 25, celebrated as the feast of the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary (4,3) |
| VIRGINBIRTH | Result of immaculate conception? (6,5) |
| MADONNA | Singer with the greatest-hits album "The Immaculate Collection" |
| GOODWILL | As two words, a phrase from the Biblical annunciation to the shepherds in the Nativity for amity, kindness or well-wishing; or, as one word in the US, a thrift shop (4,4) |
| RUBENS | Sir Peter Paul ___, prolific 17th-century Flemish Baroque painter knighted by both Philip IV of Spain and Charles I of England |
