| CREAM | Goes with carmine. .. or strawberries (5) |
| STOPPING | Syrup, sprinkles or strawberries |
| RED | Carmine or scarlet |
| NINO | And 5 Composer who shared a Best Music, Original Dramatic Score Oscar with Carmine Coppola for The Godfather, Part II (4,4) (see 5D) |
| MOSER | Early flowering clematis with large carmine-striped pink flowers (5,5) |
| NELLY | Early flowering clematis with large carmine-striped pink flowers (5,5) |
| CERISE | French word for a cherry, thus for a carmine- or crimson-like colour (6) |
| NINOROTA | Composer who shared a Best Music, Original Dramatic Score Oscar with Carmine Coppola for The Godfath |
| ROTA | Composer who shared a Best Music, Original Dramatic Score Oscar with Carmine Coppola for The Godfather, Part II (4,4) (see 6D) |
| CANNA | Carmine Beauty |
| FUDGE | Carmine Appice band Vanilla ___ |
| CANTA | Carmine mihi place; sing! |
| RANAS | Frogs; in carmine Homeri, mures ____ vicerunt |
| MINER | Person looking for ore hidden in "carmine red" |
| ROSES | Carmines |
| LAWMAKER | Legislator with master's degree wearing carmine robe, principally |
| ORGANISEDCRIME | Is Carmine gored getting involved in this? (9,5) |
| ZEPHIRINE | '___ Drouhin' - a popular (and thornless) climbing rose with scented, deep carmine pink blooms (9) |
| BLOODAND | Nickname for BR's carmine and cream livery (5,3,7) |
| CUSTARD | Nickname for BR's carmine and cream livery (5,3,7) |
