| EGRET | A white or pale heron |
| CREAM | Butterfat in milk, traditionally eaten as an accompaniment to puddings; its off-white or pale-yellow colour; or, the choice or best part (5) |
| ALBA | Group of old garden roses, flowering once yearly in late spring or early summer with white or pale pink scented blossoms (4) |
| YARROW | A plant with feathery leaves and heads of small white or pale pink aromatic flowers (6) |
| TRAVERTINE | White or pale stone used in building |
| BLANCH | To make white or pale by extracting colour (6) |
| TALC | White or pale coloured mineral found in metamorphic rocks |
| DOGROSE | White or pale pinkish native wild flower scrambling over hedgerows and woodland edges in summer (3,4) |
| GARDENIA | Evergreen flowering plant with white or pale-yellow flowers (8) |
| TOPAZ | A white or colourless mineral often tinted by impurities, valued as a gemstone (5) |
| KAHLUA | Ingredient in a white or black Russian |
| EGG | Food with a white or brown shell |
| CALICO | A white or unbleached cotton fabric with no printed design |
| NEUTRAL | Word meaning impartial or unbiased; neither acidic nor alkaline; or, having an achromatic or indefinite colour, such as beige, cream or pale grey (7) |
| CREOSOL | Colourless or pale yellow insoluble oily liquid with a smoky odour and a burning taste (7) |
| BLANC | French word meaning "white" that is used as a culinary term to describe butter-based sauces or pale-yellowish-coloured wine (5) |
| FELDSPAR | A rock-forming mineral typically occurring as a colourless or pale-coloured crystal (8) |
| BABYBLUE | A pastel shade of azure, cerulean, cornflower, cyan or periwinkle that is commonly associated with newborn boys' clothes or pale-sapphire-coloured eyes (4,4) |
| COLD | Description of a colour containing grey or pale blue |
| LILAC | Described in Rupert Brooke's poem The Old Vicarage, Grantchester, a shrub with fragrant panicles of light-purple or pale-pinkish-violet flowers (5) |
