| TINT | Small amount of colour (4) |
| TINGE | Small amount of colour |
| TINGES | Slight amounts of colour (6) |
| BLOB | A unit of mass equal to 12 slugs; a duck or score of zero in cricket; a dab or spot of colour; or, a globule (4) |
| WASH | A bathe, cleanse or rinse in water; a quantity of laundry; lotion; the wake of a ship; a tasteless drink; a thin coat of colour, glaze or slip for painting, pastry or pottery; or, pig swill (4) |
| GLOW | Leam emitted by a candle flame, hot iron or lightning bug; a feeling of warmth; brightness of colour; or, the radiance of a healthy complexion (4) |
| BARS | Oblong blocks, ingots, rods or strips of chocolate, gold, iron, soap or other solid substance; bands of colour; counters in pubs; or, from "weight", units of pressure (4) |
| LICK | Polyseme for a flicker of a flame, horse's salt block, jazz phrase, lap of a lolly, Scottish wag, taste, thrash/blow, vigorous speed or wash of colour (4) |
| DASH | Splash of colour in heart of cedar wood (4) |
| TONE | Shade of colour or quality of a voice (4) |
| ISLE | Fair _; one of the Shetlands noted for a style of colour work knitting with characteristic "peerie" motifs including "OXO" and stars (4) |
| BAND | A bar of colour; a belt; a binding for banknotes or braids; a body of brass instrumentalists, brothers, brumbies or burglars; or, a bond (4) |
| GORE | Work on reduction of colour in blood (4) |
| ONYX | Agate with alternating bands of colour (4) |
| RIOT | A striking display of colour (4) |
| BUFF | Connoisseur of colour? (4) |
| OPAL | Gemstone with flashes of colour (4) |
| ASHY | Drained of colour (4) |
| PALE | Friend beginning to emerge drained of colour (4) |
| CYAN | Fancy another bit of colour? (4) |
