| MIX | Combine into one substance or mass, such as ingredients for a compost, or plant colours in a range (3) |
| ASHADE | Robert Plant's "Colours of ___" |
| VIOLET | Small plant; colour |
| PINK | Plant; colour |
| LUMP | A shapeless mass, such as a blob in custard or gravy; a sugar-cube; a swelling; a feeling of tightness in the throat; or, a considerable quantity (4) |
| FOAM | Poetic word for the ocean; a bubbly frothy mass such as soap suds or the spindrift, spray, spume or surf of a wave; or, figurative fury (4) |
| TANGLE | Oarweed; or, a knotted mass, such as a web of lies according to Sir Walter Scott's Marmion (6) |
| SOLUTION | Correct answer to a crossword; or, a liquid mixture in which one substance is dissolved in another (8) |
| GLACIER | Moving ice mass such as the Himalaya's Siachen or Aletsch in the Swiss Alps |
| RICHARDOFYORK | First three words of a well-known acronym for the sequence of colours in a rainbow (7,2,4) |
| CONTINENT | Large land mass such as Asia or Antarctica |
| CAULDRON | In which large pot would a witch brew the ingredients for a spell? (8) |
| BLUE | One of the seven colours in a spectrum or rainbow (4) |
| REQUIEM | Need to exclude rector before mass - such as this? |
| MERGE | To combine into one as business firms |
| BEDSIDE | Where a doctor shows his true colours, in a manner of speaking (7) |
| TROWEL | Gardener's hand tool used for potting plants, lifting compost or weeding (6) |
| RECOGNISES | Picks out cheeses - in go certain ingredients for a roll (10) |
| YEAST | Ingredient for a baker or a brewer |
| PLUCK | Gather the nerve and plug our cupcake ingredients for a change (5,2,7) |
