| TINKYWINKY | The purple Teletubbie (5.5) |
| CHESTERTON | Author of a series of stories featuring his character Father Brown including The Blue Cross, The Purple Wig, The Green Man and The Red Moon of Meru (10) |
| AGAPANTHUS | Meaning "love flower", genus of the purple lily of the Nile (10) |
| BLOODSTOCK | Bred-in-the-purple industry to run on track? (10) |
| OPAL | Siliceous gem with kaleidoscopic colours said by Pliny to encompass the blue of sapphire, the green of emerald, the purple of amethyst, the red of ruby and the yellow of topaz (4) |
| DEADNETTLE | With species including henbit and the purple/yellow archangel, a perennial in the mint family thought to be named for its virtue of not stinging, unlike plants with similar leaves in the genus Urtica |
| ZANE | Tales of the old West such as Riders Of The Purple Sage and The Lone Star Ranger came from cowboy au |
| BROWN | Father -; character in stories by G. K. Chesterton including The Blue Cross, The Purple Wig and The Green Man (5) |
| ZANEGREY | Author of the western novels Riders of the Purple Sage and The Rainbow Trail (4,4) |
| TYE | Australian bowler who won the Purple Cap bowling for the Kings in the 2018 IPL |
| GLADIOLUS | Plant of the Iris family with sword-shaped leaves, the purple flowers of the wild variety can be seen in fields all over Mallorca (9) |
| DEEP | "When the ... purple falls, over sleepy garden walls; And the stars begin to flicker in the sky" |
| SAGE | The New Riders of the Purple ___ ('70s band) |
| SHEB | Wooley with the 1958 #1 hit "The Purple |
| KING | 'The - - - -', monarch of the purple coneflowers? (4) |
| COMPLEXION | Sonnet 99: The forward violet thus did I chide: / "Sweet thief, whence didst thou steal thy sweet that smells, / If not from my love's breath? The purple pride / Which on thy soft cheek for ___ dwells |
| EATED | "I ___ the purple berries" (Ralph Wiggum line from "The Simpsons") |
| GREY | Zane ___, author of the western novel Riders of the Purple Sage (4) |
| VIKINGS | NFL team known for the "Purple People Eaters" in the 1970s |
| EMPEROR | The purple --- is an Old World butterfly of the genus Apatura (7) |
