| 20 answers for: Word from the Greek for 'purple' |
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| RANK | ANSWER | CLUE |
| IODINE | Word from the Greek for 'purple' |
| MOLLUSC | Typically building a protective shell around its soft body, an animal such as the"winding stair" wentletrap or the bubble-rafting violet sea snail whose genus, Janthina, derives from the Greek for "vi |
| TWEED | Cloth handwoven in the Outer Hebrides, traditionally dyed with botanical sources including cudbear for purple-crimson, crotal or lichen for orange and bilberry for blue (5) |
| REGAL | Adjective for purple |
| PRINCE | Late singer known for purple |
| VIOLET | Organise one last vote for purple (6) |
| FOXGLOVE | Baffle gardener, primarily, with affection for purple flower |
| JIMI | Hendrix known for "Purple Haze" |
| DYE | Purchase for purple hair |
| BEETROOT | Busy type, Joe, say, grabbing time for purple food (8) |
| BEETS | US term for purple root vegetables; beset (anag.) (5) |
| TESSELLATION | Word, from the Greek for "four", thus the Latin for "cube, die, square", for the act or art of perfectly interlocking, mosaicking or tiling shapes, leaving neither spaces nor gaps (12) |
| IANTHINITE | Uranium ore, from the Latin for "violet" |
| BENTHOS | Word, from the Greek for "depths", for the assemblage of flora and fauna inhabiting the sea floor (7) |
| ANTHESIS | Word, from the Greek for "to blossom" or "to bloom", for the stage when a flower burgeons from gloom (8) |
| BIOTA | Word, from the Greek for "life" or "by way of life", for the animal and plant life, aka flora and fauna, of a given habitat, period or region (5) |
| ARISTOLOGY | An unusual word, from the Greek for "breakfast, lunch" plus "study", for the art or science of good eating and entire experience of dining (10) |
| ACHROMAT | Word, from the Greek for "without colour", for a lens engineered to minimise the rainbow- like effect of optical aberration (8) |
| EPHEMERAL | Word, from the Greek for "lasting only a day", for something fugacious, momentary, short-lived or transient, such as a bubble, cherry blossom, fashion or sunset, or, most notably, the green-drake whic |
| EPOPT | Word, from the Greek for "beholder, overseer", for an Eleusinian mysteries initiate, thus one instructed in the enigmas of a secret system (5) |
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