| BBOY | Thomas Gainsborough masterpiece, with "The" |
| GUGENHEIM | Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece, with "the" |
| IDIOT | Dostoyevsky masterpiece (with "The") |
| LASTSUPPER | Da Vinci masterpiece, with "The" |
| SUDBURY | Market town in Suffolk that was the birthplace in 1727 of The Blue Boy painter Thomas Gainsborough (7) |
| BLUE | The - Boy; painting by Thomas Gainsborough (4) |
| BLUEBOY | 'The ---', 1774 painting by Thomas Gainsborough (4,3) |
| IPSWICH | County town of Suffolk where Thomas Gainsborough lived before moving to the Circus in Bath (7) |
| GEORGIANA | --- Cavendish, duchess of Devonshire, the subject of paintings by Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Gainsborough (9) |
| THEBLUEBOY | Portrait by Thomas Gainsborough, thought to be of Jonathan Buttle, the son of a wealthy hardware merchant |
| SUFFOLK | Birth county of Thomas Gainsborough (7) |
| MRSSIDDONS | 1785 Thomas Gainsborough painting of a Welsh actress (3,7) |
| GLASS | Transparent material upon which Thomas Gainsborough painted a series of landscapes in oils to be viewed by means of a purposebuilt candlelit "showbox" (5) |
| MONALISA | Da Vinci masterpiece with an intriguing smile |
| LAVIE | Picasso masterpiece with a French title |
| TRAVIATA | Verdi masterpiece, with "La" |
| GAMBITS | Opening lines in introductions to great American masterpiece with samples (7) |
| VERMEER | Painter whose The Guitar Player forms part of the Iveagh Bequest collection in Kenwood House with other artists including Van Dyck, Rembrandt and Gainsborough (7) |
| THOMSON | Commemorated in Poets' Corner with a memorial designed by Robert Adam, a Scottish bard and dramatist whose The Seasons inspired works by the likes of Clare, Gainsborough, Haydn, Reynolds and Turner (7 |
| MARKETCART | Gainsborough painting, with "The" |
