| PANTONE | Company with a "Color of the Year" award |
| VIOLET | Purplish flowering plant sharing its name with a colour of the rainbow (6) |
| NACARAT | Word, thought to be referring to a colour of the shell of a mollusc that yields mother-of-pearl, for a shade of orangey-red or "sunset"; or, a fabric/linen dyed in such a hue (7) |
| LAVENDER | This shade of mauve was a colour of the year (8) |
| BLUEMANGROUP | Entertainment troupe whose first word is a color of the rainbow and whose second word is a gender identity: 3 wds. |
| ORANGE | A color of the full moon |
| PINK | With shades including ballet slipper, blush, bubblegum, coral, rose and salmon, a colour of the Garrick Club tie (4) |
| INDIGO | A colour of the rainbow (6) |
| INDIUM | Metallic element named after a colour of the rainbow |
| GREEN | A colour of the Alfa 33 Cloverleaf (5) |
| ROAN | A colour of a horse's coat with variations including bay, blue, red and strawberry; or, a variety of leather used in bookbinding (4) |
| CERISE | A colour of achilleas, blood, Crayola crayons, cricket balls, fashion statements, rubies or tiny tomatoes the size of berries, all like the vivid fuchsia-, magenta- or rose-like pinkish-red of shiny F |
| BLEU | French spelling of a color of cheese |
| MAGENTA | Viva ___ (2023 Pantone Color of the Year) |
| PEACHFUZZ | Pantone's 2024 color of the year |
| CLOUD | ___ Dancer (Pantone's 2026 color of the year) |
| RED | Taylor Swift album with a color for a title |
| NAVY | Shade of dark blue reminiscent of a colour of sailors' uniforms; or, a nation's warships collectively (4) |
| TUBE | The -; with a colour-coded map designed by Harry Beck, nickname of the London Underground (4) |
| ROTC | College org. with a Color Guard |
