| AZURITE | From a word for "blue", the cerulean-coloured mineral chessylite occurring in malachite, used as a pigment since Roman times (7) |
| SHADOWED | Followed, as a P.I. would |
| MIA | Lost at battle, as a P.O.W. |
| BLUETIT | Small yellow-breasted bird with cerulean coloured wings and green back (4,3) |
| SEA | "The House in the Cerulean ___" (heartwarming T.J. Klune novel) |
| STREEP | Actress who delivers the "cerulean sweater" monologue, in "The Devil Wears Prada" |
| STRAP | From a word for a thong for honing razors, a strip of leather/cloth for binding a bag/trunk, securing a wristwatch or worn on the shoulder; or, an old nickname for a barber (5) |
| CAM | The Granta in Cantabrigia upon which the May Bumps rowing races take place; a Scots word for blue-grey clay, pipeclay, a slate pencil or soft slate; or, from "comb, cogwheel", a rotating piece on a me |
| MUSTARD | From a word for grape juice, a hot-tasting condiment traditionally prepared by grinding the seeds of a brassica of the same name into a paste with said marc or stum; or, the yellow-ochre colour of thi |
| FLOURISH | From a word for a bloom, an ornamental curve; a grandiose passage of music or words; a mass of blossom on a tree; or, a fanfare (8) |
| MINERAL | From a word for an excavation of earth, a term for an ore, such as coal, gold or silver, obtained by digging; a substance neither animal nor vegetable; water found in nature; or, any element essential |
| SPRING | Name, derived from a word originally used to refer to the origin of a stream or well where water rises naturally from the earth, for a season of the year (6) |
| HOBBY | Derived from a word for a small horse, general term for a recreational pastime such as baking, calligraphy, cruciverbalism, DIY or scrapbooking (5) |
| RADIO | From a word for a beam of light, electromagnetic communication for which Marconi and Tesla were pioneers; a wireless; or, the industry of broadcasting sound (5) |
| WHIM | From a word for a trifle, trinket or an odd ridiculous notion, a term for a caprice or sudden passing fancy (4) |
| MORTMAIN | In law, the state or condition of property held inalienably by a corporation, derived from a word for 'dead hand' |
| MAIL | From a word for a bag or wallet, the postal system; or, the letters and parcels thus collected or delivered (4) |
| QUILT | From a word for a soft material layered between two pieces of fabric, a duvet or a patchwork coverlet (5) |
| FANTA | Soft drink brand created in Germany in 1940, with a name derived from a word for imagination |
| ARTERY | From a word used by Hippocrates for a branch of the windpipe, a vessel of the circulation system (6) |
