| DILETTANTE | Dabbler in art, science or literature |
| ACADEMY | Art, science or literature institute (7) |
| HARMONY | A combination of simultaneously sounded musical notes producing an aesthetically agreeable sound; the art, science or study of chords; or, a collation of parallel narratives (7) |
| INSTITUTE | Association for the promotion of art, science or education (9) |
| AGRICULTURE | Art, science or practice of farming, husbandry and cultivating land (11) |
| PHARMACY | From the Greek meaning "practice of the druggist", the art, science or technique of preparing and dispensing medicines (8) |
| DILETTANTI | Dabblers in art deal in it, foolishly buying Times (10) |
| THEME | Topic of a talk or discourse; or, recurrent idea in art or literature (5) |
| HORTICULTURE | Gardening art, science (12) |
| RUDDYDUCK | An occasional dabbler in rugby union, daddy regularly gets zero in cricket (5,4) |
| SEER | Dabbler in futures? |
| KINGPENGUIN | Nickname of William, WWII chief and dabbler in zoology? |
| RUSTYNAILS | Dabbler in old hardware? |
| ALCHEMIST | Dabbler in potions maybe St Michael converted (9) |
| MANDARINDUCK | Dabbler in oriental language getting zero (8,4) |
| THEMES | Topics; or, ideas/motifs recurring in works of art or literature (6) |
| GENRE | A style in art or literature |
| ACADEMICISM | Adherence to formal rules (in art or literature) |
| ACADEMISM | Adherence to formal rules in art or literature |
| AGITPROP | Political propaganda in art or literature (8) |
