| TALCED | Marked with tailor's chalk |
| AHOY | Cry associated with tailors (4) |
| OUTRIVALS | UV problematic with tailor's tops |
| FITTINGS | Try-on sessions with tailor |
| ADORN | Dress a man with tailor finally coming in |
| FITTING | Appropriate reason for appointment with tailor |
| TALC | Soft mineral in tailor's chalk |
| TALCUM | Tailor's chalk, typically |
| DRESSMAKER | Professional or hobbyist who might use tailor's chalk, pin cushion, seam unpicker, rotary cutter, thimble ... (10) |
| HOPSCOTCH | Children's game played on squares marked with chalk (9) |
| READER | Marked card, particularly one marked with special luminous ink that can be seen only in infrared lig |
| EARLYPURPLE | ? orchid, plant with purplish-crimson flowers whose dark green leaves are marked with blackish spots |
| SMEARED | Daubed or marked with a greasy substance or with something that stains |
| NYALA | African antelope with a coat marked with vertical stripes (5) |
| ZIBET | A large Asian civet with tawny fur marked with black spots and stripes (5) |
| LADYBIRDS | Small beetles with red wing covers marked with black spots (9) |
| PLAICE | European flatfish with an oval brown body marked with red or orange spots (6) |
| SEVRES | Often marked with interlaced blue Ls, French porcelain with pieces in the form of ormolu-mounted vases, hard paste ice-pails and bleu lapis gondolashaped potpourri vessels (6) |
| DALMATIAN | Dog breed with a white white coat marked with black or liver-coloured spots (9) |
| SPADES | Suit of cards marked with a black symbol resembling a cordate leaf with a stem (6) |
