| UPWARDLY | To the ceiling |
| NINJA | Japanese martial arts fighter (the ones in black, clinging to the ceiling in The Samurai) |
| MOODILY | Fancy covering old swimming-pool to the ceiling with grey tones? (7) |
| ROSE | How it got up to the ceiling fitting (4) |
| STUCKUP | Glued to the ceiling when living in a superior planet (5-2) |
| LEBRUN | A founding member of the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture noted for his paintings on the ceiling of the Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles (2,4) |
| TIEPOLO | Painter whose magnum opus in paint on the ceiling at the Wurzburg Residence of the continents Africa, America, Asia and Europe is the world's largest fresco (7) |
| ADAM | The Creation of ___, Michelangelo painting on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel (4) |
| OUBLIETTE | A dungeon, the only entrance to which is through a trapdoor in the ceiling (9) |
| SPANDREL | What is the space between the shoulders of adjoining arches and the ceiling above? (8) |
| CUPOLA | The French circle the prize - back up on the ceiling! (6) |
| MICHELANGELO | Master of Renaissance art whose largest "canvas", as commissioned by Pope Julius II, was the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, which he painted in biblical scenes over four years, including The Creation |
| IDIOMS | "Hit the ceiling" and "hit the sack" |
| PLASTERED | Under the table, like the ceiling? (9) |
| STEPLADDER | . . . to help you paint the ceiling |
| EVENTEMPERED | Unlikely to hit the ceiling |
| PUTUP | Build from either the floor or the ceiling? (3,2) |
| IDIOM | Figure of speech like "raise the roof" or "hit the ceiling" |
| MARC | Chagall who painted the ceiling of the Paris Opera |
| FLYOFFTHEHANDLE | Insect to leave doorknob and hit the ceiling (3,3,3,6) |
