Possible Clues:

• Telegraph journalist's decorated
• Head of the Irish Times, perhaps, covered over the cracks
• Covered the walls
• Covered, in a way
• Parisian pop installed in flat that's decorated
• Times editor did some decorating
• Decorated, as a wall
• Decorated the walls
• "When Father ___ the Parlour"
• Decorated old men on opposite sides at Waterloo died