| RESPLENDENT | Having a brilliantly beautiful appearance (11) |
| LOOKSHARP | Beautiful appearance given to instrument quickly! |
| OPAH | Deep-sea teleost creature also called a moonfish which has a brilliantly coloured body (4) |
| TANAGER | An American songbird with a short, thick bill and a brilliantly-coloured plumage in the male (7) |
| POIROT | Detective who likes order, method and a petit dejeuner of toast cut into neat little squares and eggs of identical size - he has an egg-shaped head, a brilliantly waxed moustache and is the brainchild |
| ASTUDYINSCARLET | Book a brilliantly-coloured room |
| SMARTLY | In a brilliantly intelligent way |
| DAYGLO | Hi-vis, of a brilliantly luminous yellow (3-3) |
| COUP | A brilliantly executed stratagem (4) |
| ROSELLA | Name a brilliantly coloured parrot (7) |
| RESPLENDENTLY | In a brilliantly shining manner (13) |
| BIRDOFPARADISE | Songbird of New Guinea, the male of which has a brilliantly coloured, ornate plumage (4-2-8) |
| HUMMINGBIRD | Sometimes described as a flying jewel, a small, brilliantly coloured avian such as the amethyst woodstar, fiery topaz, gilded sapphire or the golden-crowned emerald (11) |
| ALLVERYWELL | Ironic expression of discontent utterly brilliantly delivered |
| GOWITHABANG | Suit, black with silver border, to be carried off brilliantly (2,4,1,4) |
| EXCEL | Give a fish a kiss and some money and it will perform brilliantly (5) |
| STARBOARD | Right people to run a business brilliantly! |
| MANGANESE | Any one of the small, brilliantly coloured illustrations illuminated in gold or silver in a manuscript such as the Limbourg brothers' Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry (9) |
| SPACED | Having intervals between start and end of summing-up, brilliantly executed |
| VELVET | Nickname of Jan van Kessel's grandfather Jan Brueghel, a Flemish artist noted for his lavish paintings of flowers, brilliantly coloured woodland scenes and rendering of textiles, hence his sobriquet ( |
