| SHELLS | Outer layers of oological objects whose colours are used to identify the avians which laid them (6) |
| RAINBOWS | Spectral arcs whose colours are remembered by a mnemonic or acronym devised by Isaac Newton; or, the youngest girl guides (8) |
| POINTILLISM | Style of painting, in which small distinct dots of colour are used, associated with Georges-Pierre Seurat |
| NUMBERPLATES | Figure heads admit 50 are used to identify cars (6,6) |
| EGGS | Wooden devices used when darning socks; oological objects held in cups collected in pocillovy; or, jewelled Faberge items (4) |
| UFOS | Flying objects whose nature is unknown |
| OVA | Roman chickens laid them |
| PAJAMAS | Mom may have laid them out for you |
| PEAHEN | Female fowl in the genus Pavo, whose colourful male counterpart is the strutting fop of the avian world (6) |
| BITTER | Style of British pale ale whose colour an be gold to dark amber, with strength from 3% to 7% (6) |
| LINNET | Common European bird of the finch family whose colour changes with the seasons (6) |
| ZIRCON | From "golden", a gem and a silicate of atomic no. 40, whose colours, ranging from clear to red, brown, blue, green, yellow and smoky, can be observed in its varieties hyacinth, jacinth, jargoon and sp |
| IDCARD | A card or badge used to identify the bearer (2,4) |
| CRUSTS | Hard outer layers (of bread) (6) |
| TEAPET | Clay object whose name is a steeped beverage + an animal kept in the house: 2 wds. |
| WAFERS | Outer layers of an Oreo |
| OCHRES | Colours are fresh chores (6) |
| YELLOW | What colour are New York City taxis? (6) |
| NEGLIGENCE | A decomposed snail in a ginger beer bottle in 1928 led to the case which laid the foundation of laws about ____ |
| RAVEN | Known collectively as an unkindness, a buzzard-sized bird related to the crow,jackdaw, jay and rook; one of the avian guardians of the Tower Of London (5) |
