| RESPIRATORY | Touching tale involves irrational artist associated with airy movement |
| ETHEREAL | Extremely refined exotic tale involves this place (8) |
| CONSPIRATORIAL | Plotting to involve irrational cops (14) |
| ATTIRE | Father returns with airy design for workers' accommodation (6) |
| SWOOSHES | She's describing romances with airy sounds (8) |
| STORY | A touching tale, perhaps? (4,4,5) |
| HARDLUCK | A touching tale, perhaps? (4,4,5) |
| MIDAS | Subject of a touching tale? |
| HARDLUCKSTORY | A touching tale, perhaps? (4,4,5) |
| LEGER | Artist associated with the Cubists until he developed his own style dubbed "Tubism", whose works include Soldier with a Pipe and Still Life with a Beer Mug (5) |
| WILLIAM | 19th century English furniture and textile designer and artist associated with the British Arts and Crafts Movement (7,6) |
| MORRIS | 19th century English furniture and textile designer and artist associated with the British Arts and Crafts Movement (7,6) |
| ALEXKATZ | American figural artist associated with the Pop art movement whose Red Tulips sold for $690,600 in 2007 |
| BURNEJONES | Edward --- ---, English artist associated with the later phase of the Pre-Raphaelite movement (5-5) |
| PARANORMAL | Weird artist associated with opera in China (10) |
| PRIMATICCIO | Francesco, 16th Century Italian artist associated with the First School of Fontainebleau (11) |
| CLIFF | Clarice ___, English ceramic artist associated with the Bizarre range of pottery (5) |
| RALEIGH | Explorer and artist associated with Lancashire town |
| CANALETTO | Eighteenth century artist associated with Venice |
| CHAGALL | Marc---, modernist artist associated with Cubism and Expressionism among other movements (7) |
