| SECCO | Wall painting done on dried plaster with tempera or pigments ground in limewater |
| OIL | Substance extracted from olives, avocados, walnuts or the seeds of sunflowers, poppies or flax as a culinary ingredient or as medium for artists paints or pigments (3) |
| ELMER | He had no wait for the limewater ... (5) |
| FRESCO | Wall painting done on wet plaster |
| GOUACHE | Painting technique using opaque pigments ground in water and thickened with gum and honey (7) |
| EGG | Ingredient in tempera or tempura |
| UCCELLO | Florentine artist who, though "bird" by name, derived his moniker "little bird" from his passion for rendering avians in tempera or oils (7) |
| FRESCOES | Paintings done on wet plaster (8) |
| BLUE | Name, from "bilberry", of an aristocratic or royal colour such as azure, sapphire or Saxe; or, powder or pigment of this hue, traditionally used to preserve the whiteness of laundry or to rinse one's |
| PAINT | Use tempera or oils |
| TRIPTYCHS | Paintings done on three panels |
| TINCTURE | Word for a dye or pigment that, from the sense "imparted quality", came to mean a pharmaceutical or medicinal extract; an alcoholic drink; or, a slight aroma, flavour or trace (8) |
| GLAIR | The white of egg when used as a medium in bookbinding, gilding with gold dust, manuscript illumination or tempera painting (5) |
| PALE | Light in colour or shade; containing little colour or pigment (4) |
| MURAL | A painting done directly on wall |
| GRISAILLE | Metal frame all around is a painting done in monochrome (9) |
| CATHAY | Feline sits on dried grass in China (6) |
| HAYFEVER | Excitement on dried grass, it's enough to make one sneeze (3,5) |
| IMPASTO | The technique of laying on paint or pigment thickly |
| YOLK | Part of the egg used in the painting technique, tempera |
