| PRUSSIAN | Kind of blue - or a soft red! (8) |
| NAVY | Shade of blue, or a branch of the military |
| TROTSKYITE | Common clothing turned to kind of blue or red |
| TEAL | A shade of blue or a duck |
| STEEL | Fish under stone, kind of blue or grey (5) |
| TOMATO | A soft red fruit (6) |
| VERONICA | Plant with spikes of blue or purple |
| ELECTRIC | Full of tense expectation, kind of blue (8) |
| MIDNIGHT | Headliners in Miles Davis evening covering start of iconic A Kind of Blue? |
| TAYBERRY | Hybrid soft red fruit |
| SKYDIVER | Kind of blue bird, one that plummets to Earth (8) |
| PASTEL | Woad; a chalk-like crayon of ground pigment; a work of art made with this; a pale hue, such as baby pink/blue; or, a light poetic piece of prose (6) |
| PANSY | Also known as heart's-ease or three-faces-under-a-hood, a cottage garden viola suitable for crystallising or pressing; or, a soft bluish-purple or vibrant violet colour, reminiscent of said flower's p |
| ECLECTIC | Natural key in "Kind of Blue," eschewing runs in various styles |
| AIRFORCE | Kind of blue? One follows in leader's plane (3,5) |
| PRURIENT | Nothing for Gainsbourg in piano groove for Kind of Blue? |
| CRIMP | One of a series of pinches around the edge of a pie crust; or, a soft bead designed to be flattened with pliers in jewellery-making (5) |
| FUDGE | Word for nonsense; a piece of stop-press news or the box left blankin a newspaper for thus; or, a soft confection flavoured with chocolate, clotted cream, rum or vanilla (5) |
| WRAP | Type of shawl or pashmina; or, a soft tortilla or flatbread folded around a filling (4) |
| BARM | Word for the froth of fermenting liquor; yeast or leaven; or, with "brack" or "cake", dialect for fruit loaf or a soft bread roll respectively (4) |
