| STUMPS | Tortillons used for softening hard edges or blending tones in works of art created with chalk, charcoal, Conte crayon, pastel or pencil; or, the end of a day's play in cricket (6) |
| COLDCREAM | An emulsion of water and fat used for softening and cleansing the skin |
| EMOLLIENTS | Applications used for softening (10) |
| BRUSH | Makeup accessory for contouring or blending |
| FUSION | Process of joining or blending (6) |
| PUREE | Prepare food by straining or blending |
| PASTEL | A chalk-like stick of pigment; a work of art created with such a crayon; a soft or muted colour such as baby blue, duck egg, lavender, peach or powder pink; or, woad (6) |
| ETCHING | Work of art created with a printmaking technique involving the use of acid, drypoint or engraving, such as any one of the many by Rembrandt (7) |
| PAINTING | Work of art created with oils, watercolours, gouache or tempera (8) |
| ANTIQUE | Decorative object, piece of furniture or other work of art created in an earlier period (7) |
| COLLAGE | Picture or work of art created from a variety of forms such as cut-outs and photos (7) |
| HEDGES | Sceptres or wands of office; or, from "rods", thought from the idea of said poles as boundary markers, a word for borders, edges or margins, such as eaves, or grassy strips along roads (6) |
| THEMES | Topics; or, ideas/motifs recurring in works of art or literature (6) |
| AUREOLE | Radiance around the head of a holy person in works of art (7) |
| MADONNA | Italian designation of the Virgin Mary, especially as represented in works of art (7) |
| SHADE | Cover for softening a lamp's light; old word for a portrait in silhouette; or, a colour mixed with black (5) |
| DOGROSE | With pink flowers signalling an approaching summer, a wild climber found intertwined with brambles in hedgerows and woodland edges or with ripening fruit in the autumn (3,4) |
| HERRINGBONE | Method of ascending on skis; a stitch for embroidering decorative edges or one for knitting blankets and scarves; or, a classic weave for tweed cloth (11) |
| SFUMATO | From the Italian for "gone up in smoke", a subtle blending of colours and tones in painting, of which Leonardo was the chief exponent (7) |
| RUBBING | An impression of bark, a coin, a metal plate or other inscribed or textured surface by the application of friction on paper laid over it with chalk, crayon, heelball or pencil (7) |
