| BRIMSTONE | A red-hot poker that's yellow, like a common butterfly (9) |
| REDADMIRAL | A common butterfly (Vanessa atalanta) (3,7) |
| FOURCOLOR | Like a common printing process |
| DRAW | Type of poker that's not stud |
| OVOID | Shaped like a common breakfast item |
| PROVERBIAL | like a common saying |
| KNIPHOFIA | Recalled if dianthus, perhaps, is round house, next to a red-hot poker |
| TORCHLILY | The red-hot poker's hot - I'll cry out! (5,4) |
| ACROSSTHE | Like this clue, a red hot curry opposite (6,3,4) |
| BUTTERCUP | A flower that's yellow and black, say, is given a prize (9) |
| EGGFLIP | Traditionally heated with a red-hot poker, a warm nog of ale, dark rum, wine etc with brown sugar, nutmeg and yolks (3,4) |
| SALAMANDER | Adam learns about a red-hot poker (10) |
| VASE | Might you keep a red-hot poker in it? (4) |
| SPINELESS | Yellow, like tattered old book (9) |
| ORANGETIP | Common butterfly |
| ORTANIQUE | Fruit that's yellow and brown: one which comes from France (9) |
| FLIP | A snap with a finger and thumb; a toss/spin of a coin or a pancake; a pleasure-flight; a somersault; or, a nog of beer and spirits, traditionally frothed/heated with a red-hot iron (4) |
| TRITOMA | A small group outside starting to tamper with mum's red-hot poker (7) |
| IGOR | 'Prince - - - -', Borodin opera and an orange-red blooming red hot poker (4) |
| EINSTEIN | 'When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity,' said Albert .... in explaining his famous theory |