| ULTRA | Prefix with 'violet' or 'liberal' |
| SEP | Prefix with violet or violent |
| IRIS | A species of crystal, also called rainbow quartz; a messenger goddess whose sign was a rainbow; something prismatic, like said arc-en-ciel; or, a flower with purple or yellow petals known as falls, ru |
| LILAC | Tree with purple or white flowers (5) |
| WISTERIA | Climbing plant with purple or white flowers (8) |
| ROCKET | The herb arugula; a firework; the rising of a game bird when flushed; or, with "sweet", dame's-violet or mother-of-the-evening with nightscented honesty-like blooms (6) |
| HELIOTROPE | A plant of the borage family with purple or blue flowers (10) |
| AFRICAN | Word linking with "lily" for a name for Agapanthus or with "violet" for Saintpaulia (7) |
| CAPSULE | Foil cap on a wine bottle's cork; seedcase of a foxglove, poppy or violet; or, with "time", a cache of items representative of contemporary life, buried for future discovery (7) |
| HYACINTH | From an old word for a blue gem thought to be an aquamarine or a sapphire, a larkspur that sprang from the blood of a lover of Apollo; a pink, purple, violet or white liliaceous spring flower; or, cin |
| TINGE | From "to dip or colour", a word for a trace of indigo, pink, purple, violet or other colouring; or, by extension, a hint of a feeling, flavour, quality etc (5) |
| FLOWERAGE | A somewhat rare or poetic word for a bud's blooming, blossoming or burgeoning forth; or, an efflorescent mass of buttercups, daisies, pansies, pinks, roses, violets or other petalled "anthos" of garde |
| SKULLCAP | Plant of the mint family with violet-blue tube-like flowers; or, a safety helmet used by jockeys and other equestrians (8) |
| ACONITUM | Latin name of a poisonous plant with violet-blue flowers, commonly called wolfsbane or monkshood (8) |
| AUBRIETIA | Plant of the cabbage family with violet, pink or white flowers (9) |
| INDIGO | First person is doing badly with Violet (6) |
| IODINE | Element with violet vapour |
| AMETHYST | Tame thy steed with violet birthstone (8) |
| LOBELIA | Popular bedding plant, usually with violet flowers (7) |
| BRANDYSNAP | Biscuit type with violet reverse |
