ART-THEMED crossword
(published by Artists & Illustrators magazine in May 2001)

by Eddie James

Across

1'Continent', a little Degas I admire (4)
4Breaks pieces of sculpture (5)
7Opinion of a scene? (4)
9A black shadow portrait of Lottie Sue H., perhaps (10)
10Got up a pink colour (4)
11Pedestal for a statue hidden in cheap lint – horrible! (6)
12Ornamental shellwork generates local ire (8)
13Is a cop's bent to be a major 20C artist? (7)
16A skilled craftsman, Sinatra, possibly (7)
18"A major Post- Impressionist," says (or so we hear) girl (7)
20Means of repeating a design - cut it out! (7)
23Stir 'T' plaster and cover surface with random drops (8)
25Pictorial representations in Guggenheim - a gesture (6)
27Thin layer of gold – shame, we hear (4)
28Red-pink colour of girl getting even angrier (4,6)
29Held by artist Irene to mix e.g. paint (4)
30Vividly colourful interior of ormolu rider (5)
31The Orient featured in picture, a Stubbs (4)

Down

2Not the sort of picture you could call moving? (5,4)
3Deathly pale – like an egg- producer! (5)
4Paint appliers right in the shrubbery! (7)
5Parody partly makes FRSA tired (6)
6Artist Stanley is one half of a high street name (7)
7I limn over strangely brilliant red (9)
8The support some painters need (5)
14White, translucent gypsum makes altar base (9)
15Three fifths of Moore is rock (3)
16Picasso's a fool at heart (3)
17What a portraitist tries to capture upsets Ken, lassie (1,8)
19UN art upset Mr Gore – it's not artificial (7)
21Cut off the edges and decorated? (7)
22Held in drawer, a serious means of obliterating drawing mistakes! (6)
24Write in capitals: 'It's a reproduction' (5)
26Carl, of Tate bricks fame – also Royal Engineer (5)

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