| BURNTSIENNA | Ban runniest form of pigment |
| OOZIEST | Runniest and squishiest |
| CAROTENE | Trace one form of pigment (8) |
| PAINTEDLADY | Name, with an onus on multicolouredness, as if brushed or dipped in a palette of pigments, for a thistle butterfly, a tattooed woman, a scarlet "prairie-fire" American wildflower or a variegated gladi |
| PASTILLE | A cone or pellet of aromatics or herbs burnt as incense; a lozenge or sweet; or, one of the words for a crayon-like stick of pigment (8) |
| ALLAPRIMA | Method of painting using one layer of pigment (4,5) |
| PASTELS | Sticks of pigment used by Jean-Etienne Liotard to create works including The Chocolate Girl, The Early Breakfast, Portrait of a Young Woman and Still life with Figs (7) |
| PASTEL | A chalk-like stick of pigment; a work of art created with such a crayon; a soft or muted colour such as baby blue, duck egg, lavender, peach or powder pink; or, woad (6) |
| AZO | Type of pigment used in artists' paints |
| IMPASTO | Thick layers of pigment (7) |
| TINT | A bit of pigment in terra-cotta (4) |
| DYEWOOD | Brazil, for instance, source of pigment |
| LAKETANGANYIKA | Trace of pigment some thousand found in state's water? |
| PRUDE | First trace of pigment, unrefined, used in blusher? |
| SIENNA | Insane preparation of pigment (6) |
| MELANIN | Sort of pigment required by working lineman (7) |
| ALBINO | Absence of pigment (6) |
| SLIP | Flip both sides of pigment cells by mistake (4) |
| MOLE | Recalled Michelangelo mixing a little spot of pigment (4) |
| PAINT | Inapt sort of pigment (5) |
