| DIPPER | Nickname for a Baptist; metal cup clipped onto a painter's palette for holding medium; or, a water ouzel (6) |
| LAPEL | Where a wireless mic might be clipped onto a jacket |
| HUE | Choice from a painter's palette |
| ARTFORMS | Various creative mediums ... or a hint to variations found in the shaded squares |
| PERSIMMON | For every man holding medium piece of fruit (9) |
| SIENNA | Shade in a cave painter's palette |
| TEALIGHT | Named for its original use heating a pot of char or "ocha", a little candle in a metal cup for ambient illumination or for use with a fondue caquelon, food warmer or oil diffuser (8) |
| MULL | Device such as a hand-worked quern or a water- or wind-powered buhr/grindstone; a snuffbox; or, an old slang word for a boxing match (4) |
| MILL | Device such as a hand-worked quern or a water- or wind-powered buhr/grindstone; a snuffbox; or, an old slang word for a boxing match |
| CANTEEN | Box for cutlery; cafeteria within a workplace; or, a water bottle for a soldier or camper (7) |
| PADDLES | Dabbles or barefooted saunters in shallow waters; a turtle's flippers; utensils for mixing; or, a water wheel's blades/floats (7) |
| JIGGERS | Dancers of gigues; metal cups or "ponies" for measuring shots; bridges for billiard cues; mizzens or small masts of ships; or, slang for bicycles (7) |
| VINEGAR | Based on the Latin for "wine" and "sour", sharp- or tart-tasting acidic "acetum" or "eisel" used as a condiment or pickling medium; or, by extension, bitterness or sourness of countenance, speech or t |
| STRETCHER | A frame for elongating a painter's canvas; a gurney/litter; a rower's footboard; an umbrella rod; or, a lie (9) |
| ALABAMA | A priest held a Baptist's head in a southern river (7) |
| PENCIL | From "tail", a painter's fine brush of hair, like a tuft at the end of such a scut; a stick of wood-encased blacklead/ graphite or chalk with which to delineate, doodle, hatch, scribble or write; or, |
| CHARGER | Holds the head of a Baptist on the end of a phone (7) |
| PANNIKIN | Napkin in use with a small metal cup (8) |
| MILKSHA | Drink that might be served with a metal cup |
| CRESSET | Metal cup containing burning oil |
