Art Crossword (easyish cryptic)
by Eddie James
First published by Artists & Illustrators magazine July 2000

Across

Gold decoration made by our Moll endlessly (6)
Odd roles, possibly, for idle scribblers (8)
10/19 A Michelangelo masterpiece right over people's heads here? (7,6)
11 Mr Gore’s holding tramp’s book for keeping pictures in (6)
12 Heraldic silver makes high-society portraitist lose his head (6)
13 False impression it’s an Escher work? (8)
14 Colour of unbleached linen as seen in Lautrec, Rubens (4)
16 Prepare canvas – with a colour like red, blue or yellow? (5)
17/23D Now more respected than her brother Augustus? (4,4)
18 Being rather chicken-like, using this shading technique? (8)
20 Pounds for imprints? (6)
22 BA (clot!) mixes a shade of blue (6)
23 Chinese boat, craft produces sculpture from discarded material (4,3)
24 A blood-coloured ochre from angry-looking planet (3,5)
25 Primates holding cross and point at the tops of triangles (6)

Down

In drawer a serious means of getting rid of drawing mistakes (6)
Primitive artist partly responsible for Wondrous Sea, Ultramarine (8)
Copper bits twisted by e.g. Picasso or Braque (6)
Border revealed in prepared gesso (4)
Clear oil ruined ornamental rock or shellwork (8)
Spheres destroyed by gel (sob!) (6)
Demure English beauty’s shade of yellow (8)
13 Fancy decoration that’s cool on the surface? (5)
15 Dry Ocean possibly used wax sticks (8)
16 See 20
17 What makes Ted a drag? Being shaded in stages (8)
19 See 10 Across
20/16 A derogatory description of spare-time artists’ tie-ropes for week-end boats? (6,8)
21 The sort of artist to mess around in the garden shed? (6)
23 See 17 Across

Solution

Copyright Artists & Illustrators magazine 2000.