| FEATHERS | Appendages studied in plumology that derive their colours from melanins and iridescence from the structural coloration first described by Hooke and Newton (8) |
| AFR | View from the Str. of Gibraltar |
| EIFFEL | French civil engineer and architect who designed and built the tallest building in Paris and the str |
| PALETTE | What an artist uses to select and organize their colors (7) |
| ELAN | French polish made partly from melanin (4) |
| REES | Astronomer Royal, astrophysicist and cosmologist, Lord Ludlow, who was one of the first to propose that quasars derive their energy from black holes accreting matter from gas and stars in surrounding |
| CAPITALMARKET | It's the hub for music, initially from the time of the flood, and alien to one of those in Moore Str |
| FEATHER | Studied in plumology, structure used as a quill (7) |
| TITAN | Any one of the gigantic offspring of Uranus (Heaven) and Gaia (Earth) after whom an element, a mighty ship, Saturn's largest moon and the body's biggest protein derive their names (5) |
| NAIADS | From "to flow, running water", the mythical nymphs of rivers and springs after whom tiny aquatic plants, freshwater mussels and dragonfly larvae derive their names (6) |
| NGUNI | ___ cattle derive their name from the black tribes of Africa, collectively known as the Nguni people |
| COPPER | Metallic element from which paraiba tourmaline, malachite, azurite, turquoise and chrysocolla derive their blue-greenish colours (6) |
| AMBER | Once part of a tree's immune system, a gem occurring in colours from yellow and orange to red and brown (5) |
| OMBRE | Spanish card game named for the "man" who wins the hand; or, with an accent, a transition of colours from dark to light, as in hair or fabric (5) |
| MALLOW | From "soften", alluding to its emollient/soothing qualities or downy leaves, name of a plant with pink, purple or white flowers and one after which the colour mauve and a soft fluffy confection derive |
| HARLEQUIN | Columbine's clownish lover in a diamond-patterned costume, from whom some variegated dogs, ducks and ladybirds derive their names (9) |
| PROTEA | Genus of flower from which the South Africa national cricket team derive their nickname (6) |
| WOODCOCK | Bird after which a spaniel and also a scrambled egg and Gentleman's Relish dish derive their name (8) |
| VIOLETS | Containing ionone esteemed in perfumery, wild flowers mentioned in a speech by Ophelia in Shakespeare's Hamlet whose name is suggestive of their colour (7) |
| PAVONINE | Word meaning "peacock-like", as in the colours, iridescence or showiness of its plumage or eye-spotted train (8) |
