| BUTLER | The Singing ___ , painting by Jack Vettriano featuring a dancing couple and two umbrella-holding attendants (6) |
| THESINGINGBUTLER | Painting by Jack Vettriano (3,7,6) |
| STEEN | Dutch artist noted for his depictions of everyday 17th-century life in paintings such as Rhetoricians at a Window, Beware of Luxury, The Effects of Intemperance, The Dancing Couple and The Merry Famil |
| THESINGING | And 65dn Jack Vettriano painting (3,7) |
| CUTINON | Interrupt a dancing couple |
| CUTIN | Broke up a dancing couple |
| DETECTIVE | The Singing ___, BBC TV serial written by Dennis Potter, starring Michael Gambon |
| ENGLAND | The Last Of ____, painting by Ford Madox Brown showing two emigrants leaving by boat for Australia (7) |
| PEARLEARRING | Girl With A ____, painting by Johannes Vermeer later inspiring a book and film (5,7) |
| LADYOFSHALOTT | The ___, painting by John William Waterhouse based on a poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (4,2,7) |
| NUN | "Dominique" by The Singing ___ |
| GALWAYBAY | "And the boys of NYPD choir were singing ___ ___": Fairytale of Christmas, The Pogues (6,3) |
| TEAPARTY | Afternoon ___ ___; painting by Mary Cassatt, artist who also created Reading Le Figaro and Lilacs in a Window (3,5) |
| BIRTHOFVENUS | The ____, painting by Sandro Botticelli held in the Uffizi Gallery (5,2,5) |
| MARAT | The Death of ___, painting by Jacques-Louis David; a tram (anag.) (5) |
| RAGE | Patti Page, "The Singing ___" |
| BEE | "The Singing _" (2007-12) |
| BABEL | The Tower of ___, painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (5) |
| SHEPHERDS | The Adoration of the ___, painting by El Greco (1614) |
| TOTIE | "He has to make this ___" (announcer's comment on a team that's three points behind and about to att |
