| PASTMASTER | Old painter from 2 down working in school (4,6) |
| PORTER | Three-quarters of those in 17 down working in a station (6) |
| BACH | Sailor turned on taps for 22 down, working in bars (4) |
| OPERATIONS | Functions for old painters working around Oxford (10) |
| WIZARDOFOZ | Magician from 1 or 16 and from 2 and 21 (6,2,2) |
| CARAVAGGIO | Master painter from Milan |
| MANIFESTLY | Conspicuously different from 2, if set out inside |
| JOURNALESE | Reporting from 2 maybe sinking beers during short trip |
| ELECTRICAL | Something from 2 down needs to be plugged (10) |
| ETON | English teacher principally working in school (4) |
| ATPRESENT | Currently, volunteers working in school are upset over envy |
| TROUTS | Tutors working in school sometimes, but rarely |
| EAGLERAY | Recalls Russell Argyle working in school (5,3) |
| PSYCHOLOGISTS | Scientists working in school's pigsty (13) |
| ELGRECO | Painter from old Greece maybe without drawing equipment originally (2,5) |
| NEWSAGENCY | Half of what's in 7 down working on the campaign for Reuters (4,6) |
| PORTION | Helping Shakespearean heroine cut down working (7) |
| MATRIMONY | Union to scale down working during month (9) |
| WHISTLER | Painter from Wiltshire, one I dismissed in error (8) |
| ANGELICO | Old painter, kind person, one in need of company (8) |