| CUEBALL | In snooker, not a red or colour (3,4) |
| RED | At snooker, not a colour |
| ONTENTERHOOKS | Broadcast the snooker, not getting excited |
| DEMERIT | In time you'll be given a red or a black mark (7) |
| TSARIST | Not a red star: it's quite different (7) |
| SAFFRON | The dried stigmas of a type of crocus, used to flavour or colour food (7) |
| PIGMENT | Paint or colour (7) |
| ANAEMIC | Lacking vigour or colour (7) |
| PHASE | A planetary or lunar aspect; a stage in a life cycle, mitosis or one's psychological development; or, a morph or colour change in zoology (5) |
| PRIMARY | Kind of care or color |
| GENETIC | Like eye color or color blindness |
| BRICK | Word, thought to have been introduced by Flemish workmen, for a baked, fired or sun-dried building block of clay; a loaf of bread; a toy wooden block thus shaped; or, a red or deep terracotta colour ( |
| TINGE | From "to dip or colour", a word for a trace of indigo, pink, purple, violet or other colouring; or, by extension, a hint of a feeling, flavour, quality etc (5) |
| UNO | Game in which a player may get a red or a yellow card |
| SQUID | A puck used in the game octopush; British slang for a pound sterling; or, a fast-swimming often bioluminescent or colour-changing cephalopod, known as calamari when prepared as food (5) |
| ENSIGN | National flag or colours flown by a ship, nation or regiment, such as a "Red Duster"; or, a standard-bearer (6) |
| RIOJA | A red or white wine with a distinctive vanilla bouquet and flavour, produced around the Ebro river in Spain (5) |
| CORPUSCLE | Cell or other minute body suspended in fluid, especially a red or white blood cell (9) |
| CLAM | Mollusk in a red or white linguine sauce |
| CLOWN | Joker (not a red gnat larva!) (5) |
