| CARTON | Trick to keep paintings in box |
| CONTRAVENE | Fail to comply with call to keep paintings up |
| MARTYR | It's my right to keep painting constant moaner (6) |
| SLEIGHT | Trick to keep the French in view (7) |
| STUDENT | Trainee used trick to keep rodent inside (7) |
| CRIMSON | Trick to keep lips red |
| METSU | Thought to have trained in the studio of Gerard Dou, artist noted for paintings in the fijnschilder manner including Man Writing a Letter and The Cat's Breakfast (5) |
| GARTER | Band involved in hold-up storing paintings in Germany (6) |
| TOILSOME | Needing much effort to place paintings in book |
| MOMA | Place to see 20th-century paintings in N.Y. |
| SPARTA | Paintings in health club in ancient city (6) |
| STARE | What paintings in a haunted house might seem to do |
| GOUPINFLAMES | Group has no right to change sides as paintings in a gallery burn (2,2,2,6) |
| SEASCAPES | Look to have a second cover on paintings, in the main (9) |
| BOYD | From 1973 to 1975, creator of Paintings in the Studio: "Figure Supporting Back Legs" and "Interior with Black Rabbit" (4) |
| DEER | Some of the wildlife in the 20,000-year-old paintings in Lascaux Cave |
| LANDSCAPE | Perhaps captured in a paysagist's paintings in shades of azure, cerulean, green earth, lake, ochry sunset yellow, sienna and sky blue, an aspect, outlook, prospect, scene or view (9) |
| ONLOAN | Like some paintings in museum shows |
| SUPERMANART | Some paintings in the Metropolis Museum |
| GOYAS | Over 140 paintings in the Prado |
