| DYESTUFF | A shade hard, ultimately? Certainly difficult, we hear |
| ETHICS | Mention about adopting hard, ultimately scrupulous principles (6) |
| CARVED | Cut vehicle's velocity, brake hard ultimately (6) |
| MICA | Material in holy book not hard ultimately (4) |
| INDIGO | Observed in a rainbow or visible spectrum, a shade or hue between purple and blue on a colour wheel (6) |
| SAGE | A shade of greyish-green; a wise person; or, a herb (4) |
| ROLLERBLIND | A shade drunk after a tumbler (6,5) |
| TANGO | A dance; or, a shade of orange (5) |
| NUMBEREIGHT | Black dresses a shade suggestive ultimately, and forward |
| PAINKILLER | A shade less healthy after swallowing a tablet? |
| TINGE | A shade quiet in Germany? Just a bit |
| PENCILLEDIN | Made a booking, just a shade (9,2) |
| CORAL | Something black in a seam round back of collar, a shade of pink (5) |
| DINNER | A shade backward, goes around pub to get a meal (6) |
| CHARLATAN | Fake a shade below a king, for the most part (9) |
| AVOCADO | A very bad chap in good heart, a shade of green (7) |
| INFRADIG | A shade off colour writing in French a Latin term (5,3) |
| CHANDLER | Solver a shade upset about Paul, ultimately, as writer (8) |
| COLORADO | A shade over the pond, a complete state (8) |
| HUNDREDFOLD | Loveless bully with a shade of debt gets to go bankrupt in a big way |
