| AESTHETES | They cultivate great sensitivity to beauty, as in art or nature |
| ESTHETIC | Related to beauty, as some spell it |
| CARABOSSE | Name sometimes given to the wicked fairy godmother in Sleeping Beauty, as in Tchaikovsky's 1889 ballet (9) |
| HUSBANDMEN | They cultivate one who's already married before other fellows (10) |
| AESTHETE | Name one who is very sensitive to the beauties of art or nature (8) |
| ESTHETE | What do we call one who is very sensitive to the beauties of art or nature (7) |
| EDGY | A word meaning hard or sharp in outline, as in art; irritable or nervy; or, at the forefront of a trend (4) |
| 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) |
| AESTHETICISM | Semites and I chat about sensitivity to beauty |
| 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 |
| GRADATIONS | Transitions of colours or tones from light to dark in art; or, diatonic successions of chords in music (10) |
| THEME | Topic of a talk or discourse; or, recurrent idea in art or literature (5) |
| SELFEXPRESSION | Letting one's personality show as in art |
| GARLANDS | Wreaths of flowers and leaves, depicted as festoons in art; or, literary anthologies or miscellanies (8) |
| ACADEMICISM | Adherence to formal rules (in art or literature) |
| ACADEMISM | Adherence to formal rules in art or literature |
| AMORETTI | Cherubs, cupids or putti in art; or, a sonnet cycle by Edmund Spenser (8) |
| PEARL | She has beauty as well as grey matter |
| WINSLET | Actress in the forthcoming film Black Beauty as the voice of the title character (7) |
| ZOOMORPHISM | Attribution of animal form or nature to gods, or the use of animal figures in art (11) |
