| ANNAM | Its capital is Hue (or backward, something from heaven) |
| EVAL | Of grandparents (or backward, something spewed) |
| AVAL | Of grandparents (or backward, something spewed) |
| RIA | Narrow inlet (or backward, something inspired?) |
| TESSA | Girl's name (or backward, something of value) |
| SHRIMP | A crevette; its prawn- or salmon-like hue; or, akin to such a small crustacean, a puny person (6) |
| CITRINE | From Old French for "lemon-coloured", a variety of quartz in a hue or shade reminiscent of said fruit (7) |
| DUN | Related to "dark, dusk", word for a clay-bank, dingy, dull, greyish, mousey or muddy hue; or, a horse of this colour, typically with a black dorsal stripe, mane and points (3) |
| TONES | Shades, hues or tints of colours; characters of sounds; musical notes or jingles of phones; or, recitative melodies in Gregorian chants (5) |
| TONE | Hue or shade of a colour (4) |
| COLOUR | A hue or tint (6) |
| COLOURWAYS | Word for the schemes of hues or tints in which patterned clothes, fabrics or wallpapers are available (10) |
| RECEDE | Pull back or move away or backward. |
| DEPTH | The extent downward or backward or inward. (5) |
| ESOP | Workers' investment prog. (or backward, what models do) |
| STEP | Word with "forward" or "backward" |
| NOON | Daily time, forward or backward |
| SOMERSAULTS | Acrobatic feats in which forward or backward rolls are performed in midair (11) |
| NEF | Ship-shaped clock (or backward, a swamp) |
| OBOL | Old Greek coin (or backward, a wolf) |
