9ACROSS&DOWNjH0kU+$*1.2.D.V.RAG.S...R.CERISE.ADHESION.F.R.Y.L.A.T.U.NATIONAL.DRESSY.C.D.O.E.O.A.S.REFILL.RAWUMBER...A.D.Y.....A.SPANISH.CADMIUM.O.....A.L.O...DRYPOINT.LOUVRE.T.L.B.E.E.N.E.ORNATE.LIGHTRED.A.Q.R.I.O.I.D.FIGURINE.RENOIR.T.E.S.RAY.G.T..-.-.---.-...-.------.--------.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.--------.------.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.------.--------...-.-.-.....-.-------.-------.-.....-.-.-...--------.------.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.------.--------.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.--------.------.-.-.-.---.-.-.Art crypticEddie JamesRuin a picture by removing a portraits main feature? (6)Little Violet right to go to India possibly for this blueish-green (8)Cleaning aid possessed by Fragonard (3)This great portraitist mixed only reds (8)(see 10)Publicity in exhibition leads to gloom (6)Regret in this manner, we hear, the French primitive painter (8)Cherry red cries out to a point (6)Roughly shade in around circle - it's what holds things together (8)Vapour trapped in paste amethyst (5)(& 15/4) Many a famous person has been framed here! (8,8,7)Elaborately got up: awful reds and scarlet and yellow initially (6)Picture fillet holds spare ink cartridge (6)Yellowish-brown, very cold, topless figure! (3,5)His naps possibly reveal what Dali was! (7)(see 10)After start of century, Maud, I'm mixing a yellow pigment (7)Symbolic representation often used in Renaissance art means nothing in gallery, possibly (8)Getting on your high horse about what sets off a watercolour? (8)Artists workshop E. Lear bowled over with it (7)Alcohol-free tip required for this engraving technique using needle (3-5)Ornamental tablet on monument etc. can be hard to remove (6)One sort of Ribes is candytuft (6)It lets some fresh air into the Paris gallery? (6)Awful tree I'd do a cut and paste job on again! (2-4)Highly decorated but a little forlorn atelier (6)Fair embarrassed by this pale colour? (5,3)Number holding fashionable statuette (8)French master giving RI? - er, no (6)Man, what an avant-garde US artist! (3)(originally published by Artists and Illustrators magazine in March 2000