| TINT | Colour one's hair without interfering too much |
| STANDSBY | Supports but observes without interfering (6-2) |
| LAISSEZFAIRE | The policy of leaving things to their own course without interfering (7,5) |
| EMBALMED | Preserved them clipped, without hair, without tips of moustache (8) |
| UNDYED | As hair without bleach revived, might you say? (6) |
| OWN | Have soft hair without depth (3) |
| LIMP | Like hair without any bounce |
| STRAIGHT | A run of five consecutive cards of any suit in poker; a description of hair without curls or waves; or, the final stretch of a racecourse (8) |
| FELTTIP | This might colour one's image having experienced upset (4,3) |
| SEPIA | Reddish-brown colour one's seen in mushy peas |
| REDISCOVER | Again find colour one's put on sleeve (10) |
| GOLDILOCKS | Colour, one with hair of fabled character (10) |
| DYE | Word that sounds like a gambler's cube with pips or spots, but is a stain or tint to colour one's frocks or socks (3) |
| ILROSSO | From his hair colour, one of two nicknames for the Italian Mannerist painter Giovanni Batista di Jacopo |
| SPLAT | Split hairs without Irish? That sounds like something hitting the floor! (5) |
| IRIDESCENT | Glowing with colour, one possibly cycles a bit (10) |
| GREEN | Colour one could be putting on? (5) |
| REDSNAPPER | In colour, one photographing American swimmer |
| RINTINTIN | Film dog in colour, one interrupting service (3,3,3) |
| BLUSH | Colour one side of the leaves in a shrub (5) |
