| BIFFIN | Cooking apple whose name, from "beef", refers to its carpaccio-like deep-red colour; or, said cooker slowly dried and flattened into a cake (6) |
| CODLING | A variety of elongated cooking apple whose name derives from the Anglo-Norman French meaning "lion-heart" or, a small or immature fish in the genus Gadus (7) |
| WINE | Rich dark-red colour; or, a beverage made in the process of viniculture and sold by a vintner (4) |
| MAGENTA | Purplish-red colour, or maid in The Rocky Horror Show (7) |
| CLARET | A name for Bordeaux wine; or, its characteristic deep-red colour (6) |
| POINSETTIA | A gloriously festive euphorbiaceous Christmas plant whose showy "petals", the deep-red colour of autumn trees, schnozzles during a freeze or wax coats of Edam cheese, are in fact bracts or modified le |
| CERISE | Deep red colour with a tinge of pink or also name for a cherry in French |
| SPARTAN | Dessert apple whose red skin deepens to maroon when ripe (7) |
| PUFFPUFF | A traditional African beignet- or doughnut-like deep-fried snack; or, a child's word for a "choo-choo", aka railway train/steam locomotive (4-4) |
| BRAMBLING | With a name similar to that of the blackberry bush or a variety of cooking apple, a chaffinch-like bird, known regionally as cock o' the north, furze chirper and tartan back (9) |
| FIONA | Apple whose records aren't with Apple Records |
| SCOTCH | ___ broth, traditional soup made from beef or mutton, pearl barley and chopped vegetables (6) |
| BLOODRED | Sanguineous crimson colour of carpaccio beef, the vital fluid in one's head or even a sky at sunrise that a sailor may view with dread (5-3) |
| PASTRAMI | Cured meat originating from Romania, usually made from beef brisket (8) |
| PEPPERONI | US variety of salami made from beef, pork, paprika and chili peppers (9) |
| BOVRIL | Be very angry over Queen Victoria making a drink from beef extract (6) |
| CARMINE | Deep red colour |
| AGENT | Salesman's deep-red colour, appearing unclothed? |
| CRIMSON | Prisoner has lips of a deep red colour (7) |
| RUBY | Deep-red colour (4) |
