| REYNOLDS | Sir Joshua -; portraitist, author of Discourses in Art and first President of the Royal Academy (8) |
| CESAIRE | Francophone left-wing poet Aime _, author of Discourse on Colonialism (7) |
| EXORDIA | Introductory parts of discourses or compositions (7) |
| LECTOR | Word, similar to the surname of "Hannibal the Cannibal", for a reader of liturgical lessons in a church or of academic discourses in university (6) |
| ORATES | Discourses in public |
| LEIGHTON | President of the Royal Academy from 1878-96 who painted Crenaia the Nymph of the Dargle, The Garden of the Hesperides and Flaming June (8) |
| LAWRENCE | Portrait painter who was the fourth president of the Royal Academy (8) |
| OVERDRAW | Do too much in art and lose one's balance (and more) (8) |
| AGITPROP | Communist disinformation in art and literature (8) |
| ARSONIST | Offspring is involved in art and becomes a fire-bug (8) |
| SUBJECTS | Citizens in a monarchy; musical themes; matters of discourse, study, thought etc; or, experimentees known colloquially as guinea pigs (8) |
| CASSON | Director of architecture at the Festival of Britain who was elected president of the Royal Academy in 1976 and illustrated the Prince of Wales' The Old Man of Lochnagar (6) |
| LINACRE | Thomas -, chief founder and first president of the Royal College of Physicians in London (7) |
| PROGRESS | President of the Royal Society limits monster's development |
| LECTURES | Light discourses informing those in the dark (7,8) |
| ORATIONS | Discourses involving relationship in working society (8) |
| SPEECHES | Messages of a king or queen broadcast on Christmas Day; or, formal addresses, discourses or talks delivered to audiences generally (8) |
| WEST | Painter who succeeded Sir Joshua Reynolds as president of the Royal Academy (4) |
| LECTURER | One who discourses (at university) (8) |
| EVE | Farmer, author, co-founder and first president of the Soil Association (3,7) |
