| HOLBEIN | Hans ___ the Younger, German painter noted for his 1533 work The Ambassadors featuring a distorted skull at the front (7) |
| KINDER | The younger Germans seem more friendly (6) |
| AHEAD | Leading ambassador featuring in a poster (5) |
| OTTO | _____ Dix, German painter noted for his depictions of World War I and its veterans (4) |
| TENIERS | David ___ the Younger, Flemish painter whose works include 1641's The Kermis at the Half Moon Inn (7 |
| ZIMMER | Hans ___, German film composer noted for scoring The Lion King and The Dark Knight trilogy (6) |
| BETHE | Hans ___, German-American physicist awarded a Nobel Prize in 1967 'for his contributions to the theory of nuclear reactions' (5) |
| ARTDEPARTMENT | Working environment for old masters presumably produces, for example, the ambassadors of tomorrow? ( |
| PITT | William ____ the Younger, politician who became the youngest British prime minister at 24 in 1783 (4) |
| ABERRATION | In optics, a defect in a lens or mirror that causes the formation of either a distorted image or one with coloured fringes |
| BOOKCASE | Mrs Dalloway on trial for supporting the ambassadors, for example (8) |
| LUTE | Musical instrument with a broken string in Holbein’s The Ambassadors |
| PAINTINGS | Sign in Pat Duff with the ambassadors and girl with a pearl earring (9) |
| BREUGHEL | Flemish painter Pieter ___ the Younger |
| EYSENCK | Hans ___, psychologist whose works include 1985's Decline and Fall of the Freudian Empire (7) |
| GEIGER | Hans ___, German physicist who devised a counter to measure radiation in 1908 (6) |
| ZARKOV | Hans _, Flash Gordon's ally played by Topol in the 1980 film (6) |
| GRUNGE | Style of rock music originating in the US in the 1980s, characterised by a distorted guitar sound and angst-ridden lyrics (6) |
| ARTWORKS | Crafty type toils for the ambassadors and girl with pearl earring (8) |
| HEBE | At the Ambassador's, live: The Cup Holder (4) |
