| SYNESTHESIA | Neuropsychological trait in which one might ascribe colors to numbers or tastes to words |
| STATISTICS | They refer to numbers - or figures (10) |
| SAUCES | They're served to add moisture or taste to food (6) |
| PASSE | Like parental tastes, to children |
| ECLECTIC | Diverse in style or tastes |
| MORSELS | Word, from the Old French for "little bites", for bonnes bouches, mouthfuls, nibbles or tastes (7) |
| PRISMS | In optics, triangular blocks of crystal or glass used to disperse white light into visible spectral colours, to deviate rays or to rectify inverted images in binoculars (6) |
| MAST | Nail one's colours to the _: persist, refuse to give in? |
| ADDITION | An algebraic or arithmetical process of combining two or more matrices, numbers or vectors to obtain their sum; or, a person's title (8) |
| SFUMATO | A painting technique of allowing tones and colors to shade gradually into one another |
| BURNONESBRIDGES | Nail one's colors to the mast |
| ELIMINATEPOSSIBILITYOFRETURN | Nail one's colors to the mast |
| TALES | Tarradiddles; an old word for numbers; or, fairy stories or narratives such as those collected or written by the Brothers Grimm or Hans Christian Andersen (5) |
| QUOTE | Word originally meaning to mark a book with chapter numbers or references, later to cite a person/text; or, enclose within inverted commas (5) |
| ODDS | Word for miscellaneous bits and bobs abounding with ends; unequal numbers or unmatched things; advantage conceded in wagering; or, chances, likelihood or probability (4) |
| PUTONTHEDOG | Pretend to be wealthy, in old slang ... and a hint to words that end answers to starred clues |
| NOTATION | A system of written symbols used to represent numbers or elements in e.g. music (8) |
| SAFETY | A state of protection proverbially more likely when one is "in numbers"; or, any injury-preventing device (6) |
| TABLE | Any systematic display of numbers or words in columns and lines (5) |
| MICROMANAGEMENT | Annoying trait in the office, 2 words |
