| PURPLEPASSAGE | Florid description of colourful aisle |
| FLIGHT | Any one of a series of colourful upright ribbons braided into a heavy horse's mane; or, the tail of a dart (6) |
| FAIRISLE | Origin of colourful designs? Just a tissue of lies (4,4) |
| SEPIA | Revolutionary unit in copies of colourful type of photograph (5) |
| CREPE | Variety of French pancake; or, a type of colourful crinkled paper used to make flowers, party decorations and pinatas (5) |
| STREAMER | One of a multitude of colourful paper strips ejected from a party popper; a pennon; or, a headline (8) |
| CONFETTI | From Italian for "bonbons", word for little sweets or exploding white-cloud-forming balls of plaster flung at carnivals originally, later for pieces of colourful fluttering paper thrown over brides/gr |
| BOWERBIRD | An avian nicknamed "gardener" or "stagemaker" for its courtship habit of constructing an elaborate nest or boudoir of colourful feathers, flowers, foliage, fruit, shells etc; or, by extension, a perso |
| HOTSPUR | Group of colourful rhododendrons - for a rash person? (7) |
| MASCARA | Mum's motor ___ a source of colourful lashes (7) |
| LUPIN | Plant with tapering spikes of colourful flowers (5) |
| SPECTRUM | Series of colourful bands (8) |
| PAVEMENTARTIST | Designer of colourful flags |
| FUSTOC | Rough cuts of colourful wood |
| UVEAL | Dubious value of colourful part for viewers |
| OATH | String of colourful words |
| FAVOURS | Is fond of colourful things to wear (7) |
| REDCHINA | One source of colourful porcelain? (3,5) |
| BLUELANGUAGE | String of "colourful" prose |
| CRAYONS | Produced Narcos around unknown quantity of colourful writers (7) |
