| ELGRECO | Spanish painter who was born Domenikos Theotokopoulos in Crete in 1541 (2,5) |
| GRECO | El ___ (Spanish painter who was born in Crete) |
| PICASSO | Spanish painter who put the curvilinear cubism in Girl Before a Mirror (7) |
| PIZARRO | Francisco ?, Spanish conqueror of the Inca Empire who died in 1541 |
| SECRETS | Wreck of Crete in Steamship Mysteries |
| STEEN | Painter who was born and died in Leiden |
| SISLEY | Alfred ___, English Impressionist landscape painter who was born in France |
| CLAUDEMONET | Impression Sunrise painter who was born in Paris on November 14 1840: 2 wds. |
| PAULGAUGUIN | Two Tahitian Women painter who was born in Paris on June 7 1848: 2 wds. |
| OLDMASTER | Painter who was born long before his pupils? (3,6) |
| DALI | Salvador, Spanish painter who died in 1989 (4) |
| GOYA | Francisco de --, Spanish painter who died in 1828(4) |
| DESOTO | Hernando, Spanish explorer who discovered the Mississippi River in 1541 (2,4) |
| MIRO | Spanish painter who influenced Pollock |
| PABLO | Spanish painter who pioneered cubism (5, 7) |
| TURKEYCOCKS | Domestication of the common turkey was probably begun in pre-Columbian Mexico. The birds were first taken to Spain about 1519, and from Spain they spread throughout Europe, reaching England in 1541. W |
| HERNANDO | Spanish explorer and conquistador who in 1541 became the first European to cross the Mississippi River (8) |
| PITTENWEEM | Fishing village in Fife (pop about 1,750), created a royal burgh in 1541 (10) |
| STRATHAVEN | Town in south Lanarkshire (pop about 7,500), created a burgh of barony in 1541 (10) |
| SANTIAGO | Capital of Chile, founded by Spanish conquistador Pedro de Valdivia in 1541 (8) |
