| HIGHART | Sophisticated paintings, say |
| NAIVE | It is no sophisticated painting style (5) |
| MARTINU | Framing paintings, say, without short composer (7) |
| EXTRA | Old paintings, say, raised more (5) |
| ABSTRACTS | Pollock's paintings, say |
| ARTCOLLECTOR | *Owner of many paintings, say |
| ARTWORK | Sacred chest crosses river with a pair of paintings, say (7) |
| TRANSPIRE | Turn out paintings, say, put up over new part of church |
| PARTAKEN | Shared knowledge with old man collecting paintings, say |
| ARTICLE | Item left covered in diamonds behind paintings, say? (7) |
| HEARTY | Cheerful call from attention-seeker stealing paintings, say (6) |
| BRAGGART | One showing off British paper and good paintings, say (8) |
| ARDENT | Enthusiastic place where there's a pride in paintings, say (6) |
| CHARTER | US singer acquiring paintings, say, showing set of principles (7) |
| TRADITION | Custom I observed in century after papers and paintings, say, put up (9) |
| TROIKA | Uncouth person among paintings, say, took aback set of three leaders (6) |
| SWARTHINESS | Excel when encapsulating Western paintings, say, on ship having dark quality (11) |
| APART | Father picked up paintings, say, in different places |
| POSE | Sit for a painting, say |
| ART | Poetry or painting say |
