| VERTU | Word for a taste for fine art; a love of curios; or, objets d'art collectively (5) |
| VIRTU | Word for a love of the fine arts; a taste for curiosities; or, such objets d'art and antiquities collectively (5) |
| AMORINO | In fine arts, a representation of an infant cupid, also called a putto (7) |
| VIRTUOSO | From Italian for "learned, skilful", a musician or artist of consummate technical ability; a connoisseur or dilettante of antiquities, art or curios; or, a dazzling master, prodigy, supremo or whizz i |
| ART | Works of art collectively (3) |
| VICTORIANA | Bric-a-brac, collectables or objets characteristic of the age or era ruled by a queen whose name is given to a bravery decoration, a cake, a lily and a plum, among many other things (10) |
| BRICOLEUR | French word for "handyman", thus describing one who tinkers in DIY-style art or architecture, using found objects or "objets trouves" and generally making do with what's at hand (9) |
| FAINTHEART | Little stomach for fine art drawing of a hat (5,5) |
| CABINETS | They may hold curios or files |
| SOANE | Architect whose private collections of objets d'art are held in his self-designed housemuseum in Lincoln's Inn Fields (5) |
| CURIO | Whether an antique musical barrel organ with a peculiar mechanism, a bizarre geological specimen, a butterfly in a glass case or a taxidermised animal in an unusual pose, it is an objet or novelty, na |
| UMAMI | Argentinian heading off with Frenchman close to his heart for a taste of Japan (5) |
| STUDY | Objet d'art |
| PIECE | Objet d'art |
| WUSHU | Chinese martial arts collectively (5) |
| EATEN | After disposal of curio, irritated auctioneer consumed |
| ETAGERE | Shelf for objet d'art; or, a tier of plates for small sandwiches and cakes (7) |
| VERTUS | Love of or taste for fine objects of art. (6) |
| SHOWCASE | Glass vitrine for the display of curios, works of art and other delicate articles in a museum or boutique |
| EGGS | Rosebud, Hen, Lilies of the Valley, Bay Tree ... objets d'art made by Faberge for the Russian Imperial family including Alexander III and his son Nicholas II (4) |
