| THEME | Stem of a word; or, a recurrent idea or motif in art or literature (5) |
| SUFFIX | Element following the stem of a word (6) |
| BLEND | Portmanteau word; or, a mixture of two or more varieties of tea, coffee or whisky, for example (5) |
| GENRE | A particular style or category of a work of art or literature (5) |
| STUDY | A home office or den in which to swot, compose, write letters, send emails or complete prep; an exercise in art; or, an etude in music (5) |
| SPOUT | Pouring point or blowhole for boiling water; to speak in a pompous stream of words; or, a cetacean's explosive plume of vaporised breath (5) |
| PEONY | Deriving its name from the physician of the Olympian gods, a beautiful often pink heavenly scented "rose without a thorn" prominent in Chinese art, thus a popular motif in chinoiserie designs (5) |
| BRUSH | A thicket; a fox's tail; a fleeting encounter; or, an implement for applying paint in art or decorating (5) |
| SPRIG | Decorative clay moulding or motif applied to a piece of pottery before firing; or, a headless brad-l |
| TROPE | Recurrent theme or motif (5) |
| SCROLL | Volute or similar motif in the form of a curl of paper/parchment, as seen in art, on the capital of a column or at the end of a stringed instrument such as a violin (6) |
| TOPOI | Traditional motifs in piece of music caught by solver in France (5) |
| MOTIF | Recurrent idea in an artwork (5) |
| SWIRL | Spiral pattern or motif (5) |
| DECOR | Certain theme or motif |
| TOPOS | Convention or motif |
| STEM | Base of a word; or, a stalk bearing a leaf, flower, berry, mushroom cap or several bunches of bananas (4) |
| INITIAL | The first letter of a word or a person's name, sometimes forming an acronym or a monogram |
| SHIPS | Motif in Hew Locke's work |
| MONTAGE | French word for a pictorial technique used in art or advertising in which pre-existing images are cut out and reassembled to create a single collage-like paste-up or composite photograph; or, a style |
