| LITMUSPAPER | Paul permits unusually colourful material for test in lab (6,5) |
| RAINBOW | Bachelor enters a row in unusually colourful array (7) |
| TUBE | Pipe often used after test in lab (4) |
| LITMUS | Books and letters providing material for test |
| POSTERPAINT | Newsgroup contributor isn't after soft, colourful material (6,5) |
| REVISES | Prepares for test in French, dreams one's got through (7) |
| ORAL | Told to get off toll road for test, in a manner of speaking (4) |
| TITRATION | Bird given measure of feed for test in laboratory |
| EXPERIMENTS | Specialist's keeping me in, when ill, for tests |
| GINGHAM | No harm in Kent town producing colourful material (7) |
| DYESTUFF | Colourful material in crude study about eastern females (8) |
| CHROMOGEN | Child has gone mad about gypsy in colourful material |
| SIENNA | Colourful material found in central Helsinki, Vienna and Monaco |
| REVISER | One preparing for test of key velocity in vertical pipe |
| TRIALRUN | In turn, nuts retreat northbound for test-drive |
| ORALEXAM | Scholar of art and law in chairman up for test (4,4) |
| NETS | 12 in place to practice for test (4) |
| TRYOUT | Right time to get you in, to follow team leader for test (6) |
| EXAM | In turn, get rid of marks for test (4) |
| LILLEE | Australian fast bowler who was the world record holder for Test wickets on his retirement from international cricket in 1984 (6,6) |