| Rating | Solver | Clue |
|---|---|---|
| ROOTS | Background | |
| BASIS | Background | |
| DEEDS | Background | |
| SCENE | Background | |
| BACKDROP | Stage background | |
| EXTRA | Background actor | |
| ETHNICITY | Racial-cultural background | |
| SETTING | Background or surroundings | |
| SCENERY | Painted background on a film set | |
| MUSIC | Word that can follow background or sheet | |
| BASRELIEF | Sculpture where the figures stand out slightly from the background | |
| MIDDLE-GROUND | That part of a picture between the foreground and the background. | |
| BACKGROUND | Anything behind, serving as a foil; as, the statue had a background of red hangings. | |
| OVERTOP | To make of less importance, or throw into the background, by superior excellence; to dwarf; to obscure. | |
| SILHOUETTE | To represent by a silhouette; to project upon a background, so as to be like a silhouette. | |
| DEMI-RILIEVO | Half relief; sculpture in relief of which the figures project from the background by one half their full roundness. | |
| AMBROTYPE | ...which the lights are represented in silver, and the shades are produced by a dark background visible through the unsilvered portions of the glas... | |
| OPTOGRAPHY | ...so photographed shows white on a purple or red background. See Visual purple, under Visual. ... | |