| POLYCHROME | Multi-coloured hero to comply with redirection (10) |
| CONTRAVENE | Fail to comply with call to keep paintings up |
| TOETHELINE | Expression meaning 'to comply with authority, often unwillingly' (3,3,4) |
| TIMHORTONS | This Canadian coffee chain dropped its apostrophe in the 1970s to comply with Quebec language laws |
| OPALESCENT | Multi-coloured gemstone key to ten on the run (10) |
| POLYANTHUS | Multi-coloured primrose (10) |
| NEAPOLITAN | Multi-coloured and flavoured icecream (10) |
| AIRHOSTESS | Assist hero to become a flight attendant (3,7) |
| SOUTHKOREA | Hero to ask out of turn in East Asian republic (5,5) |
| RUBIKSCUBE | Multi-coloured puzzle toy with 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 possible configurations (6,4) |
| VARIEGATED | Multi-coloured (10) |
| THEODYSSEY | Homer's epic tale of the years after the Trojan War and the return of the hero to Ithaca (3,7) |
| HOLDTORANSOM | To attempt to force someone to comply with one's demands (4,2,6) |
| OBSERVERS | Spectators have to comply with the rules to celebrate (9) |
| NOCANDO | I'm unable to comply with prisoner being sent back with nothing |
| OBEY | To comply with a command, is to do what (4) |
| TRANSFERENCE | Redirection of emotions to another (12) |
| LEADEN | Dull learner with a need for redirection (6) |
| STENCH | Redirection of fishing gear starts to catch hundreds — smelt, is it? |
| HOOF | It has to be cloven for an animal to comply with kashrut rules (4) |