| CATHETER | Tube of tortoiseshell perhaps not entirely straight (8) |
| LEANING | Propensity to be not entirely straight (7) |
| ALIZARIN | Source of redness from a monitor perhaps not entirely popular |
| YUCATAN | Chinese money cornering tortoiseshell perhaps in area of Mexico (7) |
| INLAY | Embellish with tortoiseshell, perhaps |
| COMB | A toothed strip of tortoiseshell or wood for neatening unkempt hair; or, something similarly serrated, such as the crest of a cockerel or hen (4) |
| HAWKSBILL | Producer of tortoiseshell tries to sell an account |
| EPIPLASTRA | Resentment in craft market over pieces of tortoiseshell? |
| FISTFIGHT | Ray, perhaps, not entirely mean to eat morsel of food, a scrap (4,5) |
| GERMAN | Merkel, perhaps not entirely relevant (6) |
| CARAPACE | Tortoiseshell one might care to make a cap of (8) |
| BUDDLEIA | Flowering shrub known as the butterfly bush because of its attractiveness to tortoiseshells, red admirals, peacocks, painted ladies and other lepidopterans (8) |
| RAINCOAT | Artist wearing tortoiseshell, describing love for garment |
| CROSSBAR | A horizontal piece, such as a top tube of a bike, a top beam of a goal or a colourful pole of a showjump (8) |
| TROMNONE | Brass instrument, the tube of which is varied in length by means of a Ushaped slide (8) |
| LIPSTICK | Cosmetic item in the form of a tube of coloured make-up (8) |
| CLARINET | At home, filling red wine in tube of reed (8) |
| PIPECLAY | Tube of mud used on soldiers' boots (8) |
| LIPGLOSS | Tube of liquid make-up (3,5) |
| RIGATONI | Fluted tubes of pasta (8) |
