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1 Scottish bird artist (1860-1935) whose paintings were used for the Observer’s Book of British Birds (9,8)
10 Musical instrument ‘played’ by breezes (7,4)
16 Peers (5)
17 Jean Marc —, French painter (1685-1766) (7)
18 Dating from a remote period (7)
19 Period of human culture that began in the Middle East c.1100BC (4,3)
20 Firmament (7)
21 Canadian policeman (7)
22 Tombstone inscription (7)
23 Salvator —, flamboyant Neapolitan etcher and painter (1615-73) (4)
25 Kitchen appliance (7)
27 Type of Rhenish stoneware jug with a long beak-like spout (12)
31 Day of rest (7)
34 Was art buyer (anag) — Staffordshire pottery of the early 18th century (7,4)
36 Worn away (7)
38 Kind of garnet with a violet tint (9)
39 Adhesive tape or paper used for mounting pictures (5-7)
41 Protection for a book or a set of books (8)
43 Italian composer (1792-1868) renowned for his operas (7)
45 Japanese art of paper folding (7)
47 Ducal victor of Blenheim, Ramillies, Oudenarde and Malplaquet (11)
50 Into a maze (anag) — hard opaque green semi-precious stone (9)
52 Dividing Roman pentagon (anag) — technique for decorating glass (7-5,9)
59 Not living (9)
60 New clear art (anag) – renowned English artist and illustrator (1845-1915) (6,5)
62 Greek or Roman storage jar for oil or wine (7)
63 Region of Central Europe — or a twill-weave cotton fabric originally made there (7)
65 Metric unit of weight (8)
67 17th century Anglo-Dutch portrait painter (6,6)
70 Where the Rijksmuseum is located (9)
72 North American tree yielding tough heavy wood (7)
74 Transparent variety of calcite with the optical property of strong double refraction (7,4)
76 Game in which a two-headed top is manipulated with a string between two sticks (7)
77 One-armed bandit (5,7)
79 Alfred —, leading late Victorian English sculptor (7)
81 Coating formed on iron or steel by oxidation (4)
83 The head of a religious order, e.g. of the Jesuits or Dominicans (7)
85 Obeli (7)
88 German faience factory founded c.1708-10 (7)
92 Place for private prayer, or lectern for praying at (7)
93 Dry red wine from Tuscany (7)
94 Equilateral parallelogram (7)
95 Turkish gold coin issued in the 15th century (5)
96 Austrian Expressionist painter and draughtsman (4,7)
97 Huge secreted haul (anagram) — important French ceramic artist (1857-1940) (7,10)
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1 First letter of the Hebrew alphabet (5)
2 Fine white marble quarried in Tuscany (7)
3 Putting into circulation, as of banknotes (5)
4 Novel by Anne Brontë, first published in 1847 (5,4)
5 Piece of information (5)
6 Japanese poem in three lines (5)
7 Relating to a fictional land of historic romance (10)
8 Decree of the Russian imperial government (5)
9 Inked cell (anagram) — plated (9)
10 Artist’s studio (7)
11 Roman city and harbour at the mouth of the Tiber (5)
12 Hibernian (5)
13 Swiss porcelain factory founded in 1781 (4)
14 Japanese pottery founded in the 1600s on Kyushu island (5)
15 Rossetti, Millais, Holman Hunt, etc. (3-11)
24 Resort town on the west coast of Scotland (4)
25 Small cutlery item (8)
26 Brownish-grey colour (5)
28 Patterned with alternating squares of colour (9)
29 Mineral of which emerald is the green form (5)
30 Republic in Central America (9)
31 Area of early civilisation in Mesopotamia (5)
32 From the beginning (2,6)
33 Thomas —, 19th century English painter on pottery and porcelain (6)
35 In Scotland, a small cup (6)
37 The Grim Reaper (5)
40 Hero of a popular story from the Arabian Nights (3,4)
42 Composer of the ballet Les Biches, first performed in 1924 (7)
44 Temporary expedient or substitute (7)
46 Guido —, leading potter in Antwerp in the 16th century (7)
48 Made or sold illicitly (7)
49 Large cooking stove (5)
51 Lady’s maid (from the name of a character in The Scornful Lady by Beaumont and Fletcher) (7)
53 Christophe-Philippe —, textile designer who founded the Jouy factory (9)
54 The gradual passing from one shade or tone to another (9)
55 Heavier moderns (anag) — German-born architect and designer, exponent of the International Modern style (4,3,3,4)
56 Roman military engine in the form of a crossbow for heavy missiles (8)
57 Nursery rhyme shepherdess, or children’s game (2-4)
58 Classical sacred language of the Hindus (8)
60 Cambrian (5)
61 Made ready for publication (6)
64 Electronic reproduction of sound (5)
66 Fragrance (5)
68 Songlike call (5)
69 Greek philosopher and mathematician (c.580-500BC) (10)
71 Greek god of love (4)
73 Region of north-east Spain with Barcelona as its capital (9)
75 Arm of the Mediterranean between Greece and Turkey (6,3)
78 Country north of the Black Sea (7)
80 Flexible, springy (7)
82 Cylindrical military hat with a peak and a plume or pompon (5)
83 Carved channel or groove, as on a Doric frieze (5)
84 Recess for a statue etc. (5)
85 About to go out (5)
86 Wear away gradually (5)
87 Dark brown fur (5)
89 Sir John —, English architect who bequeathed his house to the nation (5)
90 Piece of gummed paper for holding a stamp in an album (5)
91 Raised ornament in wood or leatherwork (4)
