| TUBBY | A cat whose coat is brindled with dark stripes or wavy markings on a lighter background (5) |
| CIVET | African cat whose coat has bars and spots |
| MACKEREL | Marine food fish bearing distinctive wavy markings (8) |
| SILHOUETTE | Dark image against a lighter background (10) |
| NOTE | "On a lighter ___ ..." |
| TABBY | A textile such as silk or taffeta with a watered pattern; or, a cat with a brownish-greyish brindled coat (5) |
| BONGO | Spiral-horned antelope of central Africa whose coat is bright red-brown with narrow cream stripes (5 |
| COATI | Omnivorous mammal of Central and South America, with a long flexible snout and a brindled coat (5) |
| WELLS | Brickwork, dry-stone or wavy "crinkle-crankle" structures; defences of interlocked shields; fortifications; or, arrangements of tiles at the beginning of play in mah-jong (5) |
| SPOTS | Stops to recall the markings on a giraffe (5) |
| LIGER | Large hybrid cat whose counterpart is a tigon |
| TIGER | Big cat whose name's given to Asian lilies, especially Lilium lancifolium (5) |
| TOWNS | Markings on a map |
| STRIA | A thin groove, stripe or streak - "is rat" anagram |
| BLAZE | Light-coloured marking on a horse's face (5) |
| MOTHS | Feeding on night-scented blooms including honeysuckle and jasmine, insects such as the Brindled Beauties, Peach Blossoms, True Lover's Knots and Yellow Belles (5) |
| LINE | A railway track; a wrinkle; a very narrow stripe; or, a rope such as a guy for a tent or a sheet for a sail (4) |
| SCALLOP | A mollusc with a fan-shaped shell; one of its valves, as a pilgrim's badge; or, a little dish, potato fritter or wavy edge, like said fluted shell (7) |
| STRIPE | "Go-faster" marking on a racing car; a band of colour on an angelfish, badger, bumblebee, tiger or zebra; or, a chevron on a military sleeve (6) |
| FLAG | A piece of bunting with distinctive colours and a design such as a border, canton, saltire, skull and crossbones or stripes; or, a yellow iris thought to have inspired the fleur-de-lis (4) |
