| PRIDEPARADE | Event with lots of rainbow attire |
| RODEO | Event with lots of horsing around? |
| AUCTION | Event with lots of bridge? (7) |
| CROWDSCENE | Movie event with lots of extras |
| ELECTRICALSTORM | Rain event with lots of lightning (10,5) |
| ROAST | Celebrity event with lots of insults |
| BAKEMEAT | Beef's cooked in club for event with lots of attractive people (8) |
| ICESHOWS | Events with lots of runners |
| ESTATESALES | Events with lots of late people? |
| NONPAREIL | Word for something regarded as unequalled, such as a painted bunting; a fine russet apple; or, one of "hundreds and thousands" of rainbow- coloured sprinkles used to decorate a chocolate button of the |
| FETE | Local event with lot to be announced (4) |
| OPALS | Gems with glints of rainbow color |
| VARICOLOURED | In a way, rival admits firm goes to our editor with description of rainbow (12) |
| OPAL | Forming around hot springs, unique for its play of rainbow colours and found in art deco jewellery, the national gemstone of Australia (4) |
| TREE | Jeremy ...., trainer of Rainbow Quest, winner of the 1985 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe (4) |
| OPALINE | Milk glass; or, pertaining to a gem with a unique play of rainbow colours, a word for nacreous, iridescent, pearly, polychromatic or prismatic (7) |
| IRIDESCENCE | The shimmering play of rainbow colours observed on bubbles, butterfly wings, mother-of-pearl, opal, peacock plumage, starling feathers etc (11) |
| TROUT | Art form involved with origins of the underworld and source of rainbows? (5,4) |
| FARM | Art form involved with origins of the underworld and source of rainbows? (5,4) |
| UTAH | Locale of Rainbow Bridge |
