| ANAEMIC | Lacking in colour or vitality (7) |
| LANGUID | Lacking in vigour or vitality (7) |
| LURKING | Hanging around, monarch finds bird sound lacking in colour (7) |
| REVIVAL | Restoration of vigour or vitality (7) |
| PALE | Light in colour or shade; containing little colour or pigment (4) |
| DEEP | Word used to mean extending far down; profound or penetrating; intense in colour; or, low in pitch (4) |
| BRIGHT | Vivid in colour or emitting light (6) |
| REVERSED | Poetry in colour or vice-versa |
| NUANCE | A slight variation in colour or quality (6) |
| SOMBRERO | Mexican hat is dull in colour - or the wrong way round (8) |
| QUALITY | Degree of goodness/excellence; musical tone colour or timbre; basic character or nature; or, members of the upper class collectively (7) |
| 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) |
| BISCUIT | Form of unglazed pottery; a pale brown colour; or, a food such as a custard cream or a Rich Tea (7) |
| MASCARA | From the Arabic for "buffoon", a cosmetic once used by clowns or by gentlemen to darken their eyebrows and moustaches, later by ladies to colour or thicken their eyelashes (7) |
| APRICOT | A colour, or a fruit (7) |
| OLDROSE | A dusky pink Victorian colour; or, an old-fashioned type of flower such as a damask or a Bourbon (3,4) |
| AUREATE | Of a golden colour or brilliance |
| TAIWAN | Island in East that is oddly lacking in colour (6) |
| ACHROMATIC | Church set in balmy environment is lacking in colour (10) |
| JUICE | From "broth, sauce, soup", a word for the liquid present in or extracted from fruit and vegetables; a drink made from said nectar; essence or vitality; or, electrical energy (5) |
