| PAINTEDDESERT | The colourful badlands of Arizona |
| DINOSAUR | This site is a provincial park in the badlands of southeastern Alberta that is known for its extensive fossil beds. It shares its name with the ancient reptiles whose remains have been found there. It |
| DRUMHELLER | Midland Provincial Park's location in the badlands of Alberta |
| DINOSAURS | Badlands of Alberta prehistoric giants |
| CUBES | Traditional shapes of dice or of the colourful three-dimensional puzzles invented by Erno Rubik; or, blocks of perfumed bath salts (5) |
| REDSTRIPE | One of the colourful elements of the iconic Hudson's Bay white point blanket: 2 wds. |
| FLOWERBEDS | The colourful area of the garden (6,4) |
| TUDORS | BBC historical drama series depicting the colourful reign of Henry VIII, The ------ (6) |
| CAMOUFLAGE | The colourful bill allows the toucan to blend in and hide amongst the rainforest plants, it is used for ___ |
| PETAL | The colourful segment of a flower's corolla |
| ERNO | Mr. Rubik of the colourful 1980s cubes craze |
| PIGMENTATION | Selfish type of reference about a time describing the colourful types in Skins (12) |
| GREENPEPPERS | Olive and father among the titled few with the colourful Bells (5,7) |
| REDPEPPERS | Revolutionary father among the titled few with the colourful Bells (3,7) |
| MACAW | Maw brought the accountant in to see the colourful parrot (5) |
| MARBLERS | Artisans who create the colourful patterns traditionally found on endpapers and covers of books (8) |
| STAINED | With "glass", the colourful, highly decorative matter used for church windows or for the lamps designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany (7) |
| ORANGE | The colourful county famous for Choppers. (6) |
| CONFETTI | Where weddings are concerned, the colourful bits (8) |
| KOI | The colourful carp sounds bashful |
