Referring Clues

• Scarlet
• Flushed
• River to the Mississippi
• Texas-Oklahoma boundary river
• Like Time's border
• Barber of renown
• Communist
• Deeply blushing
• Claret color
• Embarrassed
• Sunburned
• Bloodshot
• Cincy player
• Like sunsets
• Lobsterlike
• Badly chafed
• Old ideological rival
• Badly chapped
• Like roses
• Roselike
• 7-Down, basically
• Checkers color
• ___ hots (candy)
• Florid
• Timber tree with colored inner bark
• Blushing
• One end of the visible spectrum
• Inflamed
• Like a sunset
• Old-style revolutionary
• Chapped
• Gules, in heraldry
• Visibly embarrassed
• Roulette bet
• Maroon
• Indian ___
• McCarthy target
• The "R" in Roy G. Biv
• Part of Roy G. Biv
• Like winterberries
• McCarthy quarry
• See 14-Across
• Traffic stopper
• Roulette play
• One side in checkers
• Médoc, for one
• Some election map shading
• Seabiscuit jockey ___ Pollard
• Like a lobster
• See 52-Across
• One end of the spectrum
• ___ alert
• Carrot-top's nickname
• Sunset hue
• Stop on it
• Symbol of deficit
• Danger signal
• Cardinal
• ___ tide (algae irritating to beachgoers)
• With 59-Down, biblical locale
• Like Duroc hogs
• Republican, on Election Day maps
• Signal to stop
• Like hearts and diamonds
• Carmine, for one
• Like Saturn
• Ketchup-colored
• Like Twizzlers, usually
• Side in checkers
• Cabernet, e.g.
• Person on the left
• ___ oak (North American tree)
• Rubbed raw
• Like second-place ribbons
• Brave opponent
• Obviously chafed
• With 14-Down, part of a U.S. political map
• Business owner's dreaded ink color
• Embarrassed, perhaps
• Like Republican states on an electoral map
• The ___ Storm of St. John's
• Kentucky's ___ River Gorge Geological Area
• Legendary sportscaster Barber
• Mao, e.g.
• With 22-Down, stinging insects
• Rubbed raw, say
• Garnet or ruby
• Clifford's color, in kiddie lit
• Ruby or garnet
• With 41-Down, perceived threat of the '50s
• Christmas color
• Like a boiled lobster
• Checkers side
• Obviously embarrassed
• Bolshevik
• Eric's color
• Rubicund
• Variety of fox
• Traffic-stopping hue
• Like a toreador's cape
• Type of tape
• Unwelcome ink color
• Carpet color?
• Chianti color
• Word with dog and rover
• Football's Grange
• Sunburnt
• Tape color
• Word preceding dog and rover
• Dreaded ink color
• Like January's birthstone
• Word with dog or rover
• "Stop" hue
• He played Clem and Freddie
• Pinot Noir or Merlot
• Word preceding dog or rover
• Sportscaster Barber
• Debt indicator
• Shortest-named spectrum hue
• The color of no money?
• "Paint-the-town" color
• Type of squirrel or snapper
• Word preceding giant or dwarf
• Color of chianti
• Matador cape color
• Morgan in "The Shawshank Redemption"
• Alert shade
• Stop sign?
• Crimson or cerise
• Wine variety
• Color of Superman's cape
• Suggestion by a sommelier
• Spectral extreme
• Fire engine shade
• Blushing brightly
• Controlled by Republicans
• Stop signal
• Looking embarrassed
• Checkers faction
• Spectrum color
• With 7-Down, a household pest
• With 38-Across, pest that's killed with amidinohydrazone
• Word with heat or meat
• Valentine's Day color
• Crimson, e.g.
• Elmo's color
• See 25-Across
• With 35-Down, Mocha is on it
• It's called gules in heraldry
• Stop light
• With 9-Across, popular tree among leaf peepers
• Sommelier's suggestion
• Like seven stripes on the U.S. flag
• Fire engine's color
• Rare color
• With 59-Down, part of the White House
• With 11- and 55-Down, lodger's option
• With 12-Down, kidnapped boy in an O. Henry short story
• Word with pepper or snapper
• Strawberry, e.g.
• Word with hot or dog
• Color in a Crayola eight-pack
• Like diamonds?
• Word appearing eight times in this puzzle grid
• Copper tone
• Claret, e.g. (and either end of 17-Across)
• Stoplight color
• Like the magic pebble in "Sylvester and the Magic Pebble"
• Apt album title for King Crimson
• Children's game
• Cincinnati player
• Chianti, e.g.
• The starts of this puzzle's three longest answers are shades of it
• Rare sign?
• Rare color?
• Wine choice
• Abashed
• Rare indicator?
• Word before Army or ant
• Glowing, maybe
• Hot, perhaps
• Inflamed, maybe
• White alternative
• Cabernet or Beaujolais
• Purple minus blue
• What a mad man sees?
• Kind of tag or tape
• Cerise or cardinal
• Loss indicator
• Beet-colored
• Wine option
• Stop-sign color
• American flag color
• Deficit hue
• Santa-suit color
• Sign of a deficit
• Like a classy carpet
• Color of embarrassment
• Merlot, for example
• See it and seethe
• It's seen in anger
• Spectrum shade
• Deficit color
• Color of Santa's suit
• Wine-list option
• Crimson, for example
• Spectrum hue
• Crimson
• Wine selection
• Debt color
• Like Betelgeuse
• ___ pepper
• Santa's favorite color
• Checker color
• Vermilion
• "Curse you, ___ Baron!"
• Bad color for business
• One-seventh of a rainbow
• Color of Crane's badge
• Alert shade?
• ___-letter days
• Alert color
• Certain color
• Candy apple or fire engine, e.g.
• "The color that my baby wore," in a Beatles tune
• Pinot noir, for one
• Word with "pepper" or "rover"
• Clearly embarrassed
• Common octagon color
• Color in a Steinbeck title
• Choice in a casino
• Fancy carpet color?
• Warning hue
• Like the Coke logo
• Roulette option
• Visibly abashed
• Valentine's Day's signature color
• Like some blood cells
• Light color?
• Color that suits Santa?
• Type of meat or pepper
• Ledger color
• Color of Mao's little book
• Wine listing
• Kind of dwarf on high
• Carrot-top
• "And the rockets' ___ glare . . ."
• Black's opposite, financially
• Buttons in "Hatari!"
• Comedian Skelton
• Attack warning (with 1-Across)
• Code color
• Facial hue, embarrassingly
• Color to paint the town
• River into the Gulf of Tonkin
• Nickname for 29-Across
• Buttons with an Oscar
• Word with "October" or "rover"
• Like 41-Across
• Type of carpet and cross
• Lipstick shade
• Kind of carpet
• It stops traffic
• "Stop!" graphically
• Like Mao's book
• Kind of tape
• Kind of onion or cabbage
• Possible wine order
• Wine type
• Color of a common octagon
• The color of no money
• Meat or wine designation
• Mars hue
• Kind of ink or cabbage
• Like Medoc
• A primary color
• Primary color
• Fifties epithet
• Kind of meat or pepper
• Wine color, sometimes
• Buttons on a television?
• Garnet's hue
• Buttons of note
• Like some fruit
• Head or neck preceder
• ___ herring (ruse)
• Color in the name of two Major League Baseball teams
• "The Hunt for ___ October"
• Bureaucratic tape color
• Obviously abashed
• Maroon, for one
• Cabernet color
• "Curse you, ___ Baron!"
• Warning color
• Bench, once
• Marxist, e.g.
• Herring or snapper color?
• Wine suggestion
• Not the color of money?
• Roulette choice
• Carpet color for VIPs
• Sommelier's recommendation, perhaps
• Wine category
• Moscow's ___ Square
• Stop sign color
• Color of Clifford
• Sommelier's recommendation with beef
• Strawberry color
• Spectrum segment
• Ketchup color
• Cardinal's color
• Light color
• What you'll see plenty of on Valentine's Day
• "The ___ Badge of Courage"
• Borscht color
• Like Rudolph's nose
• Cincinnati pro
• Word after "see" and before "Sea"
• Like Mars
• Claret, e.g.
• Clearly embarrassed, for some
• Scarlet or ruby
• Buttons on the big screen
• Debit color
• Ruby hue
• What mad people see?
• Alert color?
• Cardinal, for instance
• Typical tomato color
• "The Hunt For ___ October" (1990)
• "And the rockets' ___ glare ..."
• Barolo or Marsala
• "The color that my baby wore," in a Beatles tune
• Word with "pepper" or "rover"
• ROYGBIV opener
• Election map shading
• Crimson or carmine
• Like SpongeBob's tie
• ___ pepper
• With 19-Across, serious warnings
• Crimson or scarlet
• Cherry, for example
• Soviet, so to speak
• Debtor's ink color, traditionally
• A kind of alert
• Left leaning
• ______ maple
• Leftist
• Green or Deer preceder
• Left leaner
• ____ Oak (PEI's tree)
• ____ tide
• Eye or neck preceder
• Word before river or light
• In the ____
• Traffic signal colour
• Embarrassed, so to speak
• "The ___ Pony" (Steinbeck)
• Danger color
• Color of the embarrassed
• The color of money owed?
• Crayola choice
• VIP's carpet color?
• Silly skelton
• Roulette bet
• Cardinal or cherry
• Thing to stop on
• Electoral map shade
• Bad ink color for business
• Vermilion, e.g.
• Sox color
• Caught ____ handed
• Forty-third word of "The Star-Spangled Banner"
• Color before Sea
• TV's Skelton
• Spectrum component
• Spectrum end
• ______ Mountain, British Columbia
• Main color of a Santa suit
• Comedian Buttons
• Type of alert
• Checkers choice
• Left-leaner
• Merlot or Beaujolais
• Color of debt
• Fox variety
• With 42-Across, 'Little' storybook character
• Blood color
• Lobster color
• Unpopular ink color
• Santa suit color
• Like some wines
• Valentine color
• Cardinal color
• Rufous
• Stop color
• Bright hue
• Voting Republican
• Even-money roulette bet
• Color of the light ...
• Like 20-Across
• Cerise
• With 61-Across, part of the Bible?
• Visine target
• Flag color
• Checkers' option
• Rouge (Fr.)
• Stop symbol
• Stop color
• Carmine
• With 47-Down, waters parted by 95-Across
• Ruby-hued
• Lipstick hue
• Visibly irate
• Cherry, e.g.
• Scarlet, e.g.
• Scarlet, say
• Ruby, e.g.
• With 43-Across, famed oil-well firefighter
• Like the Phillies' caps
• One color of the rainbow
• Snow White's sister Rose ___
• Little wagon's color
• Bad color for ink?
• Color of 22-Across
• Grange or Buttons
• Like most of the Swiss flag
• Like litmus, in an acid solution
• Like states controlled by Republicans
• Spectrum slice
• With 48-Down Burgundy or Chianti,
• Checker choice
• Like most of China's flag
• Something seen in anger?
• Like a matador's cape
• 15-Across, e.g.
• -
• Winnipeg's river
• 2010 Tony winner for Best Play
• Ripe loganberry's hue
• Color of no money?
• Old revolutionist
• Sunset color
• Sharp left?
• Rare meat color
• Something you might turn on
• Blood-___
• Morgan's nickname in "The Shawshank Redemption"
• Word with Army or ant
• Old Glory stripe color
• Bloody
• Rosy
• It's been known to stop traffic
• Crimson or maroon
• Eye-catching color
• Cardinal, e.g.
• Like Mars, apparently
• Word with cent or cell
• River through Fargo or Hanoi
• Cherry's color
• Brake-light color
• Kind of wine properly served with beef
• Like ketchup
• Spectrum start
• It's in Roy G. Biv
• Suggestion by a sommelier, perhaps
• Loss signifier
• Rose's hue
• Vermillion
• Color associated with screeching brakes
• Capitalist's dreaded ink color
• Sunburn color
• Caught ___-handed
• Like the Triple Word Score squares in Scrabble
• Common color in national flags
• Sunburn shade
• Sore, say
• Like some eyes and skies
• Taylor Swift song that contains the line, "Fighting with him was like trying to solve a crossword and realizing there's no right answer"
• Roulette color
• Buttons of film
• Draw a mark through for cancellation
• Sanguine
• Word with cap or coat
• Republican states, on Election Day maps
• Tom Clancy's "___ Storm Rising"
• Scarlet or crimson, e.g.
• Commie
• ____ River Settlement+
• Like Mao's "little" book
• Great American Ball Park player
• Burned by the sun
• Sunset shade
• Manitoba's ______ River
• The "R" of Roy G. Biv
• VIP's carpet color
• Spectrum band
• Rainbow band
• Matador's cape color
• It may precede meat and potatoes
• ___ tape
• See 50-Across
• Color of some Sox
• Rare indication?
• GOP electoral map color
• Carmine, e.g.
• Like cherry-flavored things
• Bolshevik's color?
• Like a debtor's ink
• Stoplight shade
• Like Tickle Me Elmo
• ____necks (Albertans jokingly)
• Scarlet or crimson
• The R of Roy G. Biv
• Former Riverfront Stadium player
• Color to stop at
• M&M color
• Spectrum member
• Taylor Swift hit
• Wine list heading
• Cab in a bottle, say
• Like a fire truck
• Word before Sox or Wings
• Cent's color?
• ___ as a beet
• Candy apple, for one
• Valentine's Day hue
• Brick, for example
• Rose color
• Vee's rival for power on "Orange is the New Black"
• "The Quick ___ Fox"
• Highest alert
• Pomegranate color
• Like one of the pac-man ghosts
• Common grass named for its color
• Ink color to be avoided
• Cardinal or strawberry
• Symbol for stopping
• It may be seen when angry
• Like some aces
• Ketchup, e.g.
• Apple color
• It "suits" Santa
• Incarnadine
• Kind of alert
• Color of some fruit
• Clown's nose color
• Vermilion, for one
• It's at one end of a rainbow
• Cent color?
• Like Santa's wardrobe
• Ketchup's color
• Chianti, for one
• Like Twizzlers
• Color for a special carpet
• Power tie shade
• Certain "badge" color
• Color that "suits" Santa
• Lipstick color
• What the seething see
• Unlike states where Kerry won
• Like cardinals
• ___ cell
• Rainbow border color
• Like some wine
• Checkers selection
• Color of chili
• Slice of the spectrum
• Like many roses
• Like the border of Time magazine
• Blusher's hue
• Scarlet, for example
• Symbol of debt
• ___ blood cells
• VIP carpet color
• Like Santa's suit
• Type of cell or cent
• With 10-Down, Irish draught
• Buttons of "Knots Landing"
• Pepper color
• ___ meat
• ___ Hots
• Like the bull in the Chicago Bulls' logo
• Like many apples
• Lipstick choice
• Like most Twizzlers
• Blushing hue
• Arizona Cardinal mascot Big ___
• One end of a rainbow
• Vikings owner McCombs
• Brick or cherry
• Who done it herring
• Color of a 41 Down sign
• 2012 #1 album for Taylor Swift
• Wine stain color
• Like a beet
• It's suitable to Santa?
• Ruby's hue
• U.S. flag color
• Cape color in a big ring
• Visibly sunburned
• Shade of negativity
• See 9-Down
• Cardinal or brick
• Scarlet or maroon
• Color that makes one stop
• Word before tag or tape
• Visibly ashamed
• Cabernet Sauvignon, e.g.
• ___ cabbage
• One might turn on it
• Magenta
• Cabernet, for one
• With 53 Down, late-night flight
• Beet's color
• Flaming
• Republican, on an election map
• Like Mars, visually
• Bullfighter's cape color
• Like half a deck
• What poppies usually are
• Like some ripe apples
• Poppy color
• Candy-apple color
• Like the lower half of Haiti's flag
• Chinese lantern color
• Color of kid-lit dog Clifford
• Color of beets
• Warm color
• Blood or scarlet
• Embarrassing shade
• Fire ___
• Rouge color
• What color you like ?
• With 83-Down, like Rudolph
• Cinnabar, e.g.
• Electoral map color
• Color of Chairman Mao's little book
• Like William Carlos Williams's wheelbarrow
• Typical fire engine color
• ___ Deer Alberta city
• Cincinnati ballplayer
• Visibly angry
• Type of wine
• Town-painter's color
• Election map hue
• Cardinal or auburn
• Devil's color
• Cardinal's color?
• It's seen in anger?
• Chart-topping 2012 album for Taylor Swift
• With 111-Across, cinnamon candy
• Color in sunsets
• One of two colors of Canada's flag
• Cardinal or scarlet
• Raw
• Like a fire engine
• Color of anger, figuratively
• "___ Dawn" ('80s flick)
• Cabbage color
• Color of most pomegranate seeds
• Buttons
• Wreath bow color
• Holly berry's hue
• Candy cane stripe color
• Color of rare steak
• Ruby
• Ruby-colored
• Beet color
• Cerise, e.g.
• "The ___ Baron"
• ___, white and blue
• One color in the American flag
• Color of Mars
• Rudolph the ___-Nosed Reindeer
• Moses parted the ___ Sea
• Color of strawberries
• Crimson color
• Little ___ Riding Hood
• ___ flag (color of a soccer linesman's flag}
• Tomato color
• Color on the American flag
• Color of Orphan Annie's hair
• Color of Shadow
• One of the colors in a rainbow
• First color of the rainbow
• Color for charging bulls
• Adjective with "meat" or "pepper"
• Color of Snoopy's baron
• Color in the American flag
• Like Manhattan clam chowder
• Last of Kieslowski's "Three Colors" film trilogy
• German article returns in colour
• It'll make you stop
• Some pure deep colour
• Color for pepper or meat
• Color on the flags of France and Italy
• Chafing color
• Color of a boiled lobster
• Fire engine color
• Uncool dude
• Wine list adjective
• Color of a stop sign
• Color of a fire truck
• Colour
• Herring color
• Raymond's nickname on "The Blacklist"
• Rosy color?
• Color in the U.S. flag
• Meat or pepper color?
• Blood's color
• The color of blood
• Color of Elmo
• Traffic light colour
• Primary colour
• Color that stops traffic
• Gabriel: "___ Rain"
• Vendetta ___
• Color of Grateful Dead's little rooster
• Taylor Swift hit album
• "Lunatic Fringe" ___ Rider
• Color XTC's "Brick Dream" was
• Color in Beatles' "Yes It Is"
• It's often pocketed, being light
• Like Robin, a forename for ...
• A bit tired and angry
• Liverpudlians may well play in it!
• Colourful part of the Sabre Dance
• Do such potatoes resemble tomatoes?
• Maroon a person of radical tendencies
• Angry about a dunderhead
• It's right for a fellow to be on the far left
• Like diamonds or rubies
• Maroon maybe about 500
• The right edition to be read, being so colourful?
• Study lacks one which is often potted
• Cardinal participating in square dancing?
• At snooker, it has its point
• Fire department colour
• Leftist finally retired
• Very hot and bothered at last
• A colourful leftist
• Suitably like diamonds?
• Ruddy foxy?
• Tell diner about ...
• Looking angry, floored by some mad fool?
• Like flying arrows?
• Inflamed by a revolutionary?
• A shade higher than amber?
• Engineers figure it's like blood
• An arresting shade?
• Looking angry and a bit tired
• Colour of pure diamond
• Looking embarrassed in sore distress
• Old flyer: "The start of rationing: no bread rolls"
• Such a letter could be read aloud!
• Arrestingly reactionary
• Often a light colour
• Like a flush in hearts or diamonds
• Like Texas on most election maps
• Blood-colored
• 14 - breed of 4
• Off colour?
• Suit color
• US reactionary's date with (finally) Jonathan Creek broadcast
• Stop indicator
• Crayon color
• Johnny Bench, for 17 seasons
• Color that can precede each half of each [1] answer
• Color of a tomato
• ___ zone (area close to the goal line)
• Pomegranate's color
• Johnny Bench, for his whole career
• Angry-looking leftist
• Color to stop for
• Sea that parted during the Exodus
• Like a VIP carpet
• Omega ___ (Marvel Comics supervillain with a colorful name)
• Ruby shade
• Malbec or merlot, e.g.
• Like cayenne pepper
• NBA coach Auerbach
• Like some penalty cards
• Barolo or Barbera, e.g.
• Topmost band in a rainbow
• Merlot, e.g.
• Like clarets
• Helen Mirren film of 2010
• Sommelier's recommendation, maybe
• Ruby color
• Are such letters read aloud?
• Celebrate, paint the town ___
• Soccer send-off, ___ card
• Danger colour
• River, its source in the US, flowing north to empty into L Winnipeg
• Bordeaux claret, for instance
• Bloody 12!
• Bureaucracy's advice about bug
• Bloody right? Not politically
• Code ___
• One with colourful political ideas?
• Like half of Poland's flag
• One of the primary colors
• Cherry or cranberry
• 1-Across, for most of his career
• About 500 may be Communist
• Common nail polish color
• ROY G. BIV part
• Feb. 14 color
• Word with cell or cent
• Sammy Hagar, aka The ___ Rocker
• One of the five colors in the Olympic rings logo
• Crayola option
• One of those under the bed?
• Vibrant hue
• Rare color?
• Firethorn berry color
• ___-faced
• Orange minus yellow
• Fire engine hue
• Fire hydrant color
• Ruby's color
• Like some pencils
• Rockets' glare color
• Looking embarrassed, having only three of the letters
• In dire disappointment, visibly angry
• First rainbow color
• 6 is back, touring Washington
• Garnet color
• Alarming code color
• Danger hue
• Again, figure as a revolutionary
• Like almost all of Turkey's flag
• Like the Canadian flag's maple leaf
• In the fire department, it's revolutionary!
• Symbolic love shade
• Word before Sea or Square
• Cherry or raspberry
• Like litmus, after an acid
• Chili's color
• Stop sign's color
• About 500 are leftist
• Bright color
• Vibrant color
• Netflix logo color
• Cherry color
• Stop light?
• Colours
• How Mars looks
• Burgundy, e.g.
• Like two-thirds of Austria's flag
• Prince Harry's hair color
• Like radishes and rubies
• Bloody, say
• What might bring you to a screeching halt
• ROY G. BIV color
• A traffic stopper in the road around central Harlesden
• Famous 8 in Moscow
• Nickname usually related to hair color
• "___ Dragon"
• A Christmas shade
• Ultimately prepared for revolution
• Ensign seen again on the quarter deck
• Blushing shade
• Like Chianti
• Bell pepper color, often
• Colorful nickname on "Orange Is the New Black"
• Lucy's hair color
• Mr. Skelton
• Cardinal, e.g., or a Cardinal rival
• Like seven U.S. flag stripes
• Angry color
• With 72-Across, crisis condition on the Enterprise
• Looking angry and a bit scared
• Ruby or vermilion
• ___ carpet
• Ruby or scarlet
• Big ___ (Cornell team)
• Color of Santa's hat
• Word before alert or carpet
• Color to paint a town?
• Like most of Denmark's flag
• Election map color
• Ripe 25-Across color
• Color of 33-Across's book
• Like a rose, perhaps, it can be potted
• Rose-colored
• Rightmost Olympic ring shade
• Visibly shamefaced
• Said to have read the right edition
• Like Ken, perhaps, when flushed with success?
• 3-ball's color, in pool
• See 58-Down
• A colourful stopper
• Like some potato skins
• Common hummingbird feeder color
• Irish ale color
• Color of most Solo cups
• With 24-Across, food coloring in Twizzlers
• Communist colour
• In sore distress, looking embarrassed
• Color of 20-Across, often
• Obviously livid
• With 51-Down, Snoopy's aviating nemesis
• Comic Skelton
• Snooker ball colour
• Flushed with a bit of square dancing
• With 29-Down, blood drive organizer
• Hummingbird feeder color
• Ink color for debts
• Boiled lobster's color
• Colourful bit of square dancing
• Color of rubies
• Like a stereotypical barn
• Octagonal sign color, often
• Squiggly underline color
• Spectrum’s end
• Political map color
• Shade the coloured end
• Maroon, e.g.
• Nickname akin to Ginger
• What is used to enter a not out batter's score in cricket?
• With 59 Across, unwanted photo effect
• Brick, e.g.
• What some potato skins are
• Cabernet or pinot noir
• 7-Down, north of the border
• Warning flag color
• Unwanted tape hue
• Ruddy
• Color of Rudolph's nose
• Looking ruddy angry!
• Orhan Pamuk's name; John Steinbeck's pony?
• Taylor Swift's signature lipstick shade
• Angry maybe, but akin to being kind
• Like the coloured end
• Salmon or coral
• A shade less than creditable
• "___ Dawn"
• Symbol of danger or anger
• Like diamonds, suitably?
• Extreme, in a U.S. Forest Service fire danger rating
• Uppermost color on an LGBT pride flag
• Hit the brakes on this
• Revolutionary racer with "12"
• Color of some first date "flags"
• Maroon or scarlet
• Like an embarrassed checker?
• Color of Hester Prynne's "A"
• Like diamonds in your hand
• Common color for the flower that this puzzle hints at
• Hue of Mars
• Carpet hue
• 40-Across hue
• Fire truck's color
• Blushing color
• What fezzes usually are
• Old Glory hue
• Popular bell pepper color
• TV's "Code ___"
• Ethiopian flag color
• Colour of pure damask
• Does it hint at some more danger?
• What's found at one end of a rainbow
• Exit sign color
• Word before "Robin" or "Lobster"
• Cherry or strawberry
• Mr. Buttons
• Strawberry's color
• Top rainbow color
• Hongbao color
• Bright colour means a lot to soldiers
• Debt's ink color
• Angry, getting one's dander up somewhat?
• "___ River"
• Like the circle in the 7Up logo
• Ruddy reactionary!
• Left again the day after
• Discovered in a book*
• 2010 Bruce Willis film
• "Roses are ___ ..."
• Common color for salsa
• Truck at a fire's color
• Like Rupert Grint's hair
• Color on the Pan-African flag
• Rubies' color
• Strawberry, raspberry or cherry
• Popular wedding ao dai color
• Again, many are looking embarrassed
• Like Kentucky, Indiana and Illinois Avenues, in Monopoly
• Looking embarrassed about the sad ending
• Texas' ___ River, formerly part of the U.S./Mexico border
• Color of a Santa suit
• G.O.P. color on an election map
• Color mixed with blue to make purple
• Embarrassed when seen as foxy?
• Firetruck color
• Sriracha color
• Colourful cardinal
• Main color of the Turkish and Tunisian flags
• Like half a deck of cards
• Colorful Taylor Swift album title
• At snooker, not a colour
• A ruddy Leftist!
• Like a candy apple
• Homophone of "read"
• Like the top stripe of a pride flag
• Cherry Starburst's color
• Color on the flag of every permanent U.N. Security Council member
• Main color on China's flag
• Color of 62-Across
• Gochugaru color
• Beaujolais, e.g.
• Classic covered bridge color
• Like cabernet sauvignon
• Cardinal, for example
• Color of the Scarlet Witch's magic
• Rainbow's top color
• What those with protanomaly have difficulty seeing
• ___ River, part of the Texas/Oklahoma border
• Adzuki bean color
• Cabbage option
• Hair color of about 2% of the world's population
• "___ Planet"
• Do such potatoes resemble tomatoes?
• Blush color
• Eric the ___
• Color of paprika
• Cabernet or merlot
• Wine color
• Color of a black widow's hourglass
• Cardinal shade
• Bright, vibrant shade
• Color on the flags of the USA and Mexico
• Traditional color of a wedding sari
• Sweet and sour sauce color
• Taylor Swift album with a color for a title
• Color that makes one apply the brakes
• Hair color for two of every 100 people
• Like the top half of Monaco's flag
• Color associated with passion
• Like the lower half of the Polish flag
• University of Louisville's color
• Tteokbokki color
• Cherry-colored
• The right edition to be read, being so colourful?
• ___ state
• Taylor Swift album containing the longest No. 1 hit of all time
• Bloodshot, as eyes
• Color of Carmen Sandiego's hat
• Gochugaru's color
• With 6-Down, Rudolph's guiding light
• Color with "alert"
• Color suggesting anger
• Ripe tomato's color
• Cardinal participating in square dancing?
• Color of some wine
• Taylor Swift album rerecorded in 2021
• Common color
• Royal-carpet color
• Like river or sea, nominally
• Like a low battery icon
• Like the soles of Louboutin shoes
• Color of traffic on a GPS
• Color of a blood orange's flesh
• Santa's suit color
• Ruddy embarrassed?
• 45-Down, e.g.
• Tomato shade
• The right man for the extreme left?
• ___ beans and rice
• One of the angry-looking people on the left?
• Where stars may align
• Word with hot or headed
• Light shade?
• Like Clifford or Knuckles
• Crayola eight-pack choice
• ___ velvet cake
• Top stripe of a pride flag
• Color that is also a Taylor Swift album
• Suitably like diamonds?
• Chili oil color
• Ruddy foxy?
• Leftmost color on the flag of Palestine
• "Clifford the Big ___ Dog"
• Cherry or tomato type or description
• Looking angry, floored by some mad fool?
• Color of some foxes
• With 2-Down, money-saving flight option, often
• Raspberry color
• Like flying arrows?
• Inflamed by a revolutionary?
• Color of Turkey's flag
• Reason to stop
• Color of the sun rays on New Mexico's flag
• A shade higher than amber?
• Like merlot wine
• Like some stripes on Old Glory
• Cab, for one
• Raspberry shade
• Like Elmo or Ariel's hair
• Looking hot during the fire dance
• Color seen in heavy traffic
• Taylor Swift album with the hit "All Too Well"
• Clifford or Elmo's color
• An arresting shade?
• Color of a fully ripe bell pepper
• Color of Elmo and Mr. Krabs
• One of two checkers colors
• Once more, the grand finale is colourful
• Half of an orange?
• Color of the Scarlet Witch's cloak
• Fire-engine ___
• Santa hat color
• ___ Delicious apple
• Like many wines that stain
• Like the hair of 1-2% of the world's population
• Top color of the rainbow
• Color of goji berries
• "___ Heat"
• Clifford's color
• It appears on 78% of all national flags
• Detroit ___, nickname for Malcolm X
• Like merlot or pinot noir
• Color of rambutan skin
• ___ velvet
• Rust color
• Like male summer tanagers
• Main color on the Oglala flag
• Vermilion's color
• Cherry shade
• Visibly embarrassed, perhaps
• Color of a flushed face
• Like some curries and currants
• Taylor Swift era with a "22" hat
• Like many autumn leaves
• Warning not to go
• Rambutan's color
• Like pinot noir
• Like fire trucks
• See 1-Down
• Ladybug color
• Raspberry's color
• Like Triple Word Score squares in Scrabble
• Like three-balls
• First color in the rainbow
• Paint the town ___
• One of two colors on Poland's flag
• Color associated with Santa since an 1881 Thomas Nast cartoon
• Like cabernet, but not chardonnay
• Like Ronald McDonald's shoes
• Color of light with the longest wavelength
• To get a plant - it's for the kitchen (7)
• Color of the carpet at a movie premiere
• Light to stop at
• Rust shade
• "___ Storm Rising"
• "Colorful" Taylor Swift era
• Color of diamonds
• Like hemoglobin
• First color that babies can see, after black and white
• A hat like this could belong to a Roman Catholic
• Like Malbec wine
• Color that means "stop"
• Black's opponent in checkers
• Top color in a rainbow
• Like a ripe strawberry
• ___ Sea, Indian Ocean inlet
• Like half of Indonesia's flag
• ___ velvet cupcake
• Color of Lucky Charms balloons
• Like the eyes of an American coot
• Actor Buttons
• Lead-in to River or Rover
• Like rubies and garnets