| RIOT | Word for civil disorder, revelry, a dazzling display of colours or a highly amusing person or thing that once meant dissolute living (4) |
| ASBO | Old civil order for civil disorder? (4) |
| SCREAM | Highly amusing person coming in second best (6) |
| CRAFTSMAN | An artisan or a highly skilled worker |
| HOOT | Cry of an owl; note of a motor-horn or steam whistle; or, an amusing person or thing (4) |
| SCHEME | A diagram of planetary positions; a systematic plan; an arrangement of colours; or, a conspiracy |
| BLINDER | Dazzling display of sporting skill (informal) |
| BRAVURA | Dazzling display of virtuosity (7) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| VIRTUOSO | From Italian for "learned, skilful", a musician or artist of consummate technical ability; a connoisseur or dilettante of antiquities, art or curios; or, a dazzling master, prodigy, supremo or whizz i |
| SALUTE | A greeting such as a hat tip, kiss or nod; a formal military gesture of respect; or, a ceremonial dipping of colours or firing of cannon (6) |
| SPLASH | Sensational news story; bright patch of colour; or, a spot of tonic or soda water added to a drink (6) |
| RAINBOW | Arc-en-ciel or similar spectrum of colours; or, another word for a cloud or kaleidoscope of butterflies (7) |
| PALETTE | Word for a flat board on which an artist arranges, blends and lays paints, thus for a range of colours or tones (7) |
| GLOW | Leam emitted by a candle flame, hot iron or lightning bug; a feeling of warmth; brightness of colour; or, the radiance of a healthy complexion (4) |
| VERDURE | From French for "green", a poetic word for flourishing grass, greenery, herbage or vegetation; its colour; or, a condition of freshness or vigour (7) |
| TONE | Character of a sound; quality or brilliance of a colour; or, a musical note as an alert on a phone (4) |
