| ORANGE | Fruit with the name of its color |
| LONGISLANDDDTEA | Alcoholic drink so named because of its color, not its content |
| COMMONBLUE | The most widespread British butterfly of its colour-type (6, 4) |
| TEAL | Duck or one of its colors |
| IMAC | Blue Dalmatian was one of its colors |
| CESTCHIC | 1978 R&B album whose title rhymes with the name of its highest-charting hit |
| PIERRE | Only state capital that shares no letters with the name of its state |
| TAIGA | Word, homophonous with the name of the "stripes" of the big cat world, for the "land of little sticks" biome also called a Boreal forest (5) |
| BELIZE | The name of which Central American country is also the name of its main river and capital? (6) |
| TEJA | "___ main hoon. Mark idhar hai." Fill in the blanks with the name of one of the antagonists in the movie Andaz Apna Apna, played by Paresh Rawal |
| CHROME | ___ yellow is a shade of the color, and it is a lead compound. (You can also fill in the blank with the name of a well-known web browser.) |
| BRECHIN | The former status of this town in Angus is reflected in the name of its football team |
| MOGAMBO | "___ khush hua!" Fill in the blank with the name of the evil mastermind in the 1987 movie Mr. India |
| NIGER | African country whose name is contained in the name of its southern neighbor |
| LABEL | A garment's inner cloth tag bearing the name of its designer or a set of laundry care symbols (5) |
| HEADSTONE | Marker put at one end of a grave with the name of the person who has died (9) |
| LEAK | Homophonous with the name of a spring onion-like scallion, a word for a crack allowing the escape of liquid, gas or figurative secret information (4) |
| GLUE | Word, sharing its root with the name of the wheat protein that makes dough elastic, for adhesive (4) |
| FUR | Word, homophonous with the name of a pine-like tree, for the hair of a dog, fox, mink or robust chimpanzee (3) |
| DRDREW | HLN program sharing the name of its host: 2 wds. |
