| PUTINTHEPICTURE | Submitted the portrait when informed about the situation (3,2,3,7) |
| TOLD | Rang in the ears when informed (4) |
| DRAFTEE | The inductee submitted the rough copy with ease, I hear (7) |
| CENTRIST | Moderate politician submitted the joint, we hear (8) |
| AFINEHOWDOYOUDO | Phrase complaining about the situation (beginning with, "well that's" |
| SELFIECONSCIOUS | Paying attention to the portraits in a social media feed? |
| PSYCHOLOGY | The type of subject that sticks in the mind or that's the current thinking about the situation (10) |
| IMO | "Here's what I think about the situation," in a text message |
| BILLET | I'll have a bet about the situation (6) |
| APOSTLE | Evangelist is bitter about the situation (7) |
| HEP | (informal) Informed about the latest trends. |
| ASK | Seek to be informed about the Alaskan centre |
| HEATHERS | Is informed about the plants |
| HEATHER | Be informed about the plant (7) |
| PERIL | Keeper ill-informed about the risk (5) |
| JAMES | Depicted in a portrait by John Singer Sargent, a novelist awarded the Order of Merit in 1916 who wrote The Portrait of a Lady and The Wings of the Dove (5) |
| HIP | Informed about the latest |
| PISANELLO | Considered the inventor of the portrait medal, Italian painter whose surviving frescos are Annunciation and Saint George and the Princess (9) |
| LADY | Nicole Kidman played heiress Isabel Archer in the 1996 film adaptation of Henry James's novel, The Portrait Of A ... |
| CAMPION | Jane -; screenwriter whose productions include The Portrait of a Lady and Top of the Lake (7) |