| BISTRE | The pigment of various tribes (6) |
| KINGS | Title, derived from the chiefs or "cynings" of various tribes of Angles and Saxons, for male monarchs or rexes; pre-eminent men or male animals; or, crowned draughts (5) |
| OCHRE | Pigment of various colours from yellow to brown |
| SIENNA | Dead queen is to return the pigment (6) |
| JAUNDICE | Illness also called icterus, characterised by a yellowing of the skin or the whites of the eyes, caused by an excess of the pigment bilirubin (8) |
| GREEN | Associated with Ireland, nature, envy, environmentalism and safety, the colour of the pigment chlorophyll, essential in the process of photosynthesis (5) |
| CHLOROPHYLL | The green pigment of plants that traps the energy of sunlight for photosynthesis (11) |
| BLUE | Name, from "bilberry", of an aristocratic or royal colour such as azure, sapphire or Saxe; or, powder or pigment of this hue, traditionally used to preserve the whiteness of laundry or to rinse one's |
| LAPISLAZULI | Deep-blue metamorphic rock that is the only natural source of the pigment ultramarine (5,6) |
| VERDIGRIS | Green pigment of weathered metal, visible on the Statue of Liberty, for example (9) |
| SEPIA | Pigment of half-pint in the ocean (5) |
| UMBER | Pigment of pipe man is out of place (5) |
| LENTIGO | Small brownish spot (of the pigment melanin) on the skin (7) |
| FRECKLE | A small brownish spot of the pigment melanin on the skin (7) |
| CINNABAR | Sulphide of mercury, used to make the pigment vermilion |
| ANIL | Component of the pigment Maya blue |
| LITHOPONE | Brilliant white pigment of zinc sulphide and barium sulphate first produced in the 1870s; Greek, 'stone work' (9) |
| HAEM | Pigment of drug-injected meat |
| OCHER | Pigment of iron oxide |
| UMBERTO | An Italian to go after the pigment (7) |
