| BOTTICELLI | The Birth of Venus |
| DUNANT | Sarah ?, author of novels Mapping the Edge and The Birth of Venus (6) |
| SANDROBOTTICELLI | Italian painter of the Early Renaissance whose masterpieces include The Birth of Venus and Primavera |
| NUDE | Like Venus in "The Birth of Venus" |
| UFFIZI | Museum in Florence that contains the painting The Birth Of Venus (6) |
| OILPAINTINGS | Like "The Last Supper" and "The Birth Of Venus" , e.g. |
| SANDRO | The Birth of Venus painter Botticelli |
| SCALLOP | - shell; an item depicted by Sandro Botticelli in his painting The Birth of Venus (7) |
| NUDES | Botticelli's "Birth of Venus," et al. |
| MARINER | The name for any of a series of ten uncrewed U.S. space probes sent to the vicinities of Venus, Mars, and Mercury between 1962 and 1973. The first was launched July 22, 1962, but was destroyed shortly |
| COOK | Commander of the ship Endeavour who set sail with his crew to Tahiti in 1768 to chart the transit of Venus across the Sun (4) |
| CYTHEREA | Epithet of Venus (Aen 1.257) as goddess of island south of the Peloponnese |
| RICHARD | Film following the life of the father of Venus and Serena Williams (4,7) |
| KING | Film following the life of the father of Venus and Serena Williams (4,7) |
| CUPID | The god of love, and son of Venus, is also a variety of both strawberry and rose (5) |
| EVENINGSTAR | The sight of Venus, perhaps, may make the veteran sing (7,4) |
| EARTH | Planet whose orbit of the sun is between that of Venus and Mars (5) |
| ANAISNIN | Delta of Venus is the bestknown work by which novelist and writer of short stories and erotica? (5,3) |
| NIN | "The Delta of Venus" writer |
| ICHOR | Liquid found under the surface of Venus? |
