| CAMDEN | Antiquary and former headmaster of Westminster School who is depicted in a bust in Westminster Abbey with one hand on his great survey Britannia (6) |
| SHELL | A structure such as a coconut's husk, a pea's pod, a pie's crust, a snail's exoskeleton or tortoise's carapace; or, a class that originally met in the apse of Westminster School (5) |
| ARNOLD | Historian and former headmaster of Rugby School immortalised in Thomas Hughes' Tom Brown's School Days (6) |
| ASHMOLE | English antiquary and writer on alchemy, whose collection formed the basis for museum in Oxford |
| OSBERT | A forename of the author of A Place of One's Own who is depicted in a painting by John Singer Sargent with his parents and his siblings Edith and Sacheverell Sitwell (6) |
| SIGMUND | First name of the neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis who is depicted in A Dangerous Method (7) |
| SITWELL | Author of an autobiography that ran into five volumes who is depicted in a painting by John Singer Sargent with his siblings Edith and Sacheverell (7) |
| MARAT | French revolutionary leader whose assassination in a bath by Girondin sympathiser Charlotte Corday is depicted in a painting by Jacques-Louis David (5) |
| RENNIE | John -; engineer who designed the original Waterloo Bridge, the opening of which is depicted in a painting by John Constable (6) |
| SOCRATES | Greek philosopher known through the writings of Plato and Xenophon whose death by hemlock poisoning is depicted in a painting by Jacques-Louis David (8) |
| NEFERTITI | Ancient Egyptian queen, of whom there is a bust in a Berlin museum (9) |
| HANNIBAL | Carthaginian general whose crossing of the Alps by elephant is depicted in a painting by Turner (8) |
| LOTTO | Artist of the Italian Renaissance trained in the Venetian school who painted Susanna and the Elders and Portrait of a Woman Inspired by Lucretia (5) |
| CHATTERTON | Poet whose death is depicted in a painting by Henry Wallis (10) |
| UDULL | Which headmaster of Eton in 1537 and tutor to Edward Courtenay in the Tower, is credited with the fi |
| THOMASARNOLD | Headmaster of Rugby School whose style of teaching was described in Tom Brown's School Days (6,6) |
| EUTERPE | One of the nine Greek muses, who is depicted holding a flute (7) |
| IRIS | Who is depicted as goddess of the rainbow in Greek mythology? (4) |
| TITIAN | Artist of the Venetian School who painted The Rape of Europa and The Death of Actaeon (6) |
| CROME | A founding member and leader of the Norwich School who painted The Beaters, The Poringland Oak and Mousehold Heath (5) |
