| ROUGE | Type of blusher originally made with safflower; French red wine; or, metal polishing powder of ground ferric oxide, also called crocus (5) |
| WAILERS | Bob Marley's backing groun (7) |
| STREAK | Course or succession of luck or wins; a swift dash; or, the colour of the powder of a mineral (6) |
| MULLED | Description of red wine or cider infused with aromatic spices including cinnamon, cloves and star anise as a festive winter warmer (6) |
| BALLOON | Fumetto; a globular glass for brandy or red wine; or, a lifting "envelope" for carrying passengers in its basket or gondola (7) |
| ALAMODE | French phrase meaning "according to the fashion" that is also used to describe beef braised in red wine or pudding served with ice cream (1,2,4) |
| CRIMSON | Lips covered with fake colour of blusher |
| EMERY | Based on the Greek for "polishing powder", a variety of corundum other than ruby or sapphire (5) |
| POUNCE | A talon of a hawk; a sudden spring or swoop; fine powder of cuttle-bone or sandarach, formerly used to prevent ink from bleeding; or, charcoal dust sprinkled through perforated designs to transfer mot |
| CARDS | Painter John Callcott Horsley's pioneering Christmas notelets with designs portraying toasting and a child drinking red wine; or, folding paper/pasteboard devices conveying seasonal greetings generall |
| BURGUNDY | Type of French red wine |
| BASIS | Bit of blusher, without changing foundation (5) |
| SALLOW | In need of blusher |
| WAN | In need of blusher, say |
| BEAUJOLAIS | Purple loosestrife with burgundy flower spikes, and a light, French red wine (10) |
| POUNDCAKE | Baked good originally made with four sticks of butter |
| BEEFSTROGANOFF | Meat and mushroom dish originally made with a mustard and sour cream sauce |
| MEGILP | Oil painting medium consisting of mastic varnish and an oil medium such as walnut, linseed. poppy or safflower (6) |
| CAB | Red wine or yellow car |
| MEDOC | French red wine with a physician in its spelling |
