| RUSTED | Variety of apple or its reddish brown colour; or, a type of historical homespun brown or grey cloth (6) |
| STAGECOACH | A large type of historical diligence, four-in-hand or tally-ho that ran on a regular route with passengers/mail from leg to leg, town to city etc (10) |
| BISCUIT | Form of unglazed pottery; a pale brown colour; or, a food such as a custard cream or a Rich Tea (7) |
| BISQUE | A rich lobster/shellfish soup with cream and white wine; a pale pinkish-brown colour; or, a free turn in a handicap croquet match (6) |
| SWEETIES | An ambrosial, sugary or sucrose-rich variety of apple; or, a darling (8) |
| GALA | Variety of apple; or, a festival (4) |
| DRAB | A thick, strong, grey cloth (4) |
| FLUSH | A startled flock of rising or springing game birds; a fresh bloom of flowers, foliage or fruit; a suffusion of a reddish or rosy colour; or, a hand of poker cards, all of the same suit (5) |
| TURNOVER | Word for transference; a pasty-like triangular pie made by folding one half of the crust around a filling of apple or jam; a small shawl; profit, revenue or yield; or, loss of possession of the ball t |
| BLOB | A unit of mass equal to 12 slugs; a duck or score of zero in cricket; a dab or spot of colour; or, a globule (4) |
| SWATCH | Small sample of carpet, cloth or wallpaper; a number of said testers bound as a book; a computer's palette of active colours; or, a spot of ink for matching during printing (6) |
| RUSSET | Reddish-brown hue of a variety of apple, iron oxide patina or homespun cloth; or, pertaining to the aforesaid fabric, a word for "homely, simple" (6) |
| SPRINKLING | A bookbinder's mottling of page edges by dotting a few drops of colour; or, a dusting or smattering of something such as baptismal water, drizzle, snow, sugar or vermicelli (10) |
| TONE | Character of a sound; quality or brilliance of a colour; or, a musical note as an alert on a phone (4) |
| BRINDLED | An animal's coat that has brown or grey streaks or patches of a darker colour (8) |
| PLUM | Fresh prune with a "bloom"; its purplish colour; or, a raisin in a cake or pudding as a substitute of said fruit (4) |
| SPARROW | A small bird with a brown or grey plumage that feeds on seeds or insects (7) |
| BURMESE | Short-haired domestic cat breed typically having a brown or grey coat and green or grey eyes (7) |
| TAWNY | --- owl, bird of prey with reddish-brown or grey plumage, black eyes and a round head (5) |
| JET | Coal-like mineraloid, once mined in Whitby; its glossy black colour; or, a rapid stream of water or gas, propelled though a nozzle of the same name (3) |
