| NAVY | Dark blue, like the color of a * sailor's uniform |
| NAVYBLUE | Color of a sailor suit |
| CAERULEUM | Dark blue, like the sky, or Britons' war paint: omnes ... se Britanni vitro inficiunt, quod ____ efficit colorem, Caes. BG 5.14 |
| TURQUOISE | Beautiful blue, like the water around the Keys |
| VIOLET | Bluish purple, like the colour of a pansy-like heart-leafed flower; or, clothing of said lavender-like hue (6) |
| SPECTRAL | Like the colors of a rainbow |
| SLATY | Like the color of some roofing |
| YELLOWY | like the color of lemons |
| GOLDEN | Like the color of honey |
| TAWNY | Like the color of many big cats' coats |
| NEON | Like the colors of much spandex in the 80s |
| CREAMS | Like the colour of Aruncus dioicus flowers... the best at end of day (6) |
| REDDISH | A bit like the colour of cherries |
| OLDSHIP | A mannequin of a sailor adorns the roof of The ___ ___ Inn, a Macclesfield pub in the style of a Tudor roadhouse (3,4) |
| SEA | Alluded to in the stanza "full fathom five" in The Tempest, any one of the saline "mares" forming the oceans; a great wave; the tide; or, the maritime career of a sailor (3) |
| ORANGISH | Like the colour of an ape? (8) |
| EBON | Like the colour of ink, to Shakespeare |
| OCHRY | Like the colour of earth in Loch Ryan (5) |
| BLEW | It was windy - sounding like the colour of gentians! (4) |
| SQUARE | Quadrangular shape of a sailor's historical wooden trencher/platter for a meal aboard a naval ship; or, a word for fair, honest, proper or solid, thus for a hearty balanced meal (6) |
