| MORDANT | Caustic, corrosive - also means serving to fix a dye (7) |
| LYE | Caustic, corrosive cleaning agent |
| PIGMENT | Swine intended to lose a dye (7) |
| SUSTAIN | Give us back a dye to hold up (7) |
| STANDBY | Word for a state of readiness for duty that also means sleep mode (5-2) |
| DOORMAT | Rug at the entrance could also mean person who is walked all over (7) |
| ANNATTO | Small tropical American tree, Bixa orellana, whose pulpy seeds yield a dye (7) |
| DRINKNO | ___ evil (what the hands-over-the-mouth monkey might also mean) |
| PONCEAU | French word for the scarlet red of the corn poppy, hence a dye of vivid rouge colour, like said coquelicot (7) |
| ANILINE | It's used by Neil in a dye |
| REDROOT | North American plant that's a dye source |
| GRAYEST | Most in need of a dye job? |
| MAGENTA | Mark spy with a dye |
| CLAMP | Word related to the name of a mollusc for a mechanical vice that also means a heap of root vegetables; a stack of bricks; or, a car immobiliser (5) |
| PUG | One of a grumble of carlins whose name also means an animal's footprint, a boxer, clay, a fox, an imp, a geometer moth, a monkey or a snub nose (3) |
| CORRAL | From "ring, to run", word for a pen in which to round up or wrangle cattle or horses on a farm or range, which also means a defensive ring of wagons (6) |
| RUN | Word for a gallop or jog that also means an upstream migration of salmon, a roulade, an enclosure for chickens, a score of one in cricket or a sequence of cards in one suit (3) |
| HAZE | A word for thick fog, thin mist, lack of definition, obscurity of perception or a state of confusion that also means to bully, rag, vex with excess work or subject to horseplay (4) |
| NESTLE | An old word for a bird's feather-lined nidus that also means to huddle, settle, shelter, snoozle, snuggle; or, to cherish, as a hen does her chicks (6) |
| MAROON | A shade of red that also means to leave someone on a deserted island, perhaps? |
