| KLIMT | Vienna Secessionist who created a number of gilded works during his "Golden Phase" including The Kiss (5) |
| THEKISS | Classic Gustav Klimt painting made during his "Golden Period" |
| CISCO | Duncan Renaldo starred in one of the first TV series filmed in more than black and white, The ... Ki |
| ARGONAUT | In Greek mythology, one of a band of heroes who accompanied Jason on his Golden Fleece quest (8) |
| SCAB | Term of abuse for a person who works during strike action (4) |
| SEURAT | Artist who created A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte by means of dots of pure colour in the technique of pointillism (6) |
| RING | (NOBC) "Call up the butler of this house,/Put on his golden -" (4) |
| WAITSFORNOONE | Works during a slow day at the restaurant? |
| ALLAT | "Everything Everywhere ___ Once" (2022 film for which 1-A received his Golden Globe) |
| HERON | Yorkshire-born artist of the St Ives School who created a colourful series of "garden" paintings and shared his surname with an egret (5) |
| PICASSO | Artist who created a series of minimalistic line drawings of animals including dog, owl and mouse (7) |
| ANTONYGORMLEY | Artist who created a lifelike model of a man looking across the water at Saddell Bay (6,7) |
| BIAFRA | Secessionist state in Nigeria, the scene of a bitter civil war (1967-1970) |
| ENUGU | City in southeast Nigeria; capital of the secessionist Republic of Biafra (5) |
| EROTICART | Works during a painter's blue period? |
| MIDAS | How maids disturb the legendary king and his golden touch |
| FABERGE | Peter Carl ---, Russian goldsmith and jeweller, known for his golden Easter eggs (7) |
| YAP | Laurence _, Chinese-American children's author known for his Golden Mountain Chronicles (3) |
| CASCADIA | Though it wouldn't make British Columbia the 51st state, a secessionist movement named for a local mountain range would join B.C., Oregon, and Washington into one political entity called this |
| RICHMALCROMPTON | 20th-century writer who created a series of children's books featuring a mischievous 11-year-old schoolboy (7,8) |
