DAN BROWN, THE DA VINCI CODE — Most tourists... sprint through the [Louvre] to see the three most famous objects: the Mona Lisa, Venus de Milo, and Winged Victory. Art Buchwald... boasted he'd seen all three masterpieces in five minutes and fifty-six seconds.
| A. | Dutch art school represented by Piet Mondrian (2 wds.) | DESTIJL |
| B. | Palazzo Alfieri's town | ASTI |
| C. | Documentary form superseded by TV broadcasting | NEWSREEL |
| D. | Jut, as a brow; popular car | BEETLE |
| E. | Creator of Flakey Foont and Fritz the Cat (2 wds.) | RCRUMB |
| F. | Left, right and center | OUTFIELD |
| G. | Frogman's getup (2 wds.) | WETSUIT |
| H. | Territory unclaimed or ambiguous (3 wds.) | NOMANSLAND |
| I. | Venetian master who painted "St. George and the Dragon" | TINTORETTO |
| J. | Beau's relation to Bo? | HOMONYM |
| K. | Norwegian who painted "The Scream" (2 wds.) | EDVARDMUNCH |
| L. | Kind of pizza with a thick crust (2 wds.) | DEEPDISH |
| M. | Result of taking a course in algebra? | AFTERMATH |
| N. | Renaissance fresco painter born Paolo Caliari | VERONESE |
| O. | Technique of applying paint thickly | IMPASTO |
| P. | Quality of a naysayer | NEGATIVITY |
| Q. | Evaluation involving a dummy (2 wds.) | CRASHTEST |
| R. | Live and present (3 wds.) | INTHEFLESH |
| S. | Create shading with multiple intersecting lines | CROSSHATCH |
| T. | Worrying over stuff more than necessary | OBSESSIVE |
| U. | Incompetent dweeb or dingbat | DOOFUS |
| V. | Meager, scanty | EXIGUOUS |