| OUTOFTHEBLUE | Unexpectedly missing a colour (3,2,3,4) |
| HUE | House even missing a colour (3) |
| AWOL | Unexpectedly missing |
| ABSENTWITHOUTLEAVE | Answer book dispatched virtually having no pages unexpectedly missing |
| CONCH | Sea-shell whose plural can be spelt with an unexpectedly missing "e" |
| EMERALDGREEN | Re-emerge with land ploughed that's a gem of a colour (7,5) |
| INDIGO | Dye obtained from a plant in the pea family; or, a colour between blue and purple on a traditional colour wheel (6) |
| PINK | The call of a chaffinch; a colour of rose wine; a fox-hunter's scarlet jacket; or, a flower related to sweet William (4) |
| TONE | Character of a sound; quality or brilliance of a colour; or, a musical note as an alert on a phone (4) |
| GREEN | Communal grassy area at the centre of a village; a closely-mown plot for bowls; or, a colour with shades including mint and sage (5) |
| ORANGE | A colour between red and yellow on a colour wheel (6) |
| SPOT | Small amount of lunch or rain; any one of the six points on a snooker table on which a colour ball is replaced after being potted; or. a polka dot (4) |
| CHARTREUSE | A colour varying from a clear yellowish-green to a strong greenish-yellow (10) |
| ROAN | A colour of a horse's coat with variations including bay, blue, red and strawberry; or, a variety of leather used in bookbinding (4) |
| SHADE | Cover for softening a lamp's light; old word for a portrait in silhouette; or, a colour mixed with black (5) |
| PLATE | Flat receptacle traditionally used for a church collection; or, a colour illustration, tipped-in to a book (5) |
| RICHNESS | Number of species within a biological community; affluence; creaminess/butteriness of a food; or, the vividness of a colour (8) |
| APRICOT | A colour, or a fruit (7) |
| COPPER | A metal and a colour named for that metal |
| MAGENTA | Mother gets a guy and a colour (7) |
