| SCUP | Northern porgy with faint dark vertical stripes (4 |
| TIGERSHARK | Aggressive cartilage fish with dark vertical stripes (5,5) |
| NYALA | African antelope with a coat marked with vertical stripes (5) |
| WASP | Stinging winged insect with black-and-yellow stripes (4) |
| BRAS | Women can buy them in zebra stripes (4) |
| ICKY | _ Thump, last album from The White Stripes (4) |
| PALY | Divided into vertical stripes, in heraldry |
| PERU | Its flag has vertical stripes of red-white-red |
| DROPSTITCH | Technique for knitting vertical stripes |
| REFEREE | Figure in vertical stripes |
| DAMN | ___ with faint praise (4) |
| ETON | Berkshire college founded by Henry VI in 1440 whose old school tie bears horizontal light blue stripes (4) |
| BAND | Reportedly prohibited stripe (4) |
| PALE | An adjective meaning feeble, light in colour, peaky, wan, washed-out or whitish; or, as a noun, a vertical stripe on a shield; a wooden stake forming a fence; or, a conceptual boundary (4) |
| CHEVRON | Caught bird bearing a little vertical stripe |
| PALER | Less colourful vertical stripe runs to the bottom |
| WILLIAM | Architect of ___ Adam's determination with faint heart to a lady (7,4) |
| ADAM | Architect of William ___'s determination with faint heart to a lady (7,4) |
| SNIDE | Damning with faint praise, perhaps |
| UNCOMPLIMENTARYREMARK | Damning with faint praise |
