| Indigo shrub | 12 |
| Dye stuff | 9 |
| Anagram for nail | 16 |
| Shrub yielding indigo | 21 |
| Shrub yielding a blue dye | 25 |
| Shrub of the genus Indigofera | 29 |
| Plant of the pea family | 23 |
| Indigo-producing shrub | 22 |
| Indigo product | 14 |
| Dye-yielding shrub | 18 |
| Deep blue dye | 13 |
| What makes blue jeans blue | 26 |
| W. Indian shrub | 15 |
| Shrub yielding an indigo dye | 28 |
| Shrub used in dyeing | 20 |
| Shrub that yields indigo dye | 28 |
| Shrub that yields indigo | 24 |
| Shrub that produces blue ink | 28 |
| Shade darker than azure | 23 |
| Relative of cyanine | 19 |
| Puzzle makers' favorite dye | 31 |
| Plant used for blue dye | 23 |
| Plant used by dyers | 19 |
| Plant of the bean family | 24 |
| Plant in the pea family | 23 |
| Pea family shrub | 16 |
| Navy relative | 13 |
| It's to dye with | 20 |
| Indigo-dye source | 17 |
| Indigo producer | 15 |
| Haitian shrub | 13 |
| Fabaceous shrub | 15 |
| Dye herb | 8 |
| Dye containing indigotin | 24 |
| Dye color appropriate to this puzzle | 36 |
| Deep blue color | 15 |
| Blue indigo | 11 |
| Blue dye from a plant | 21 |
| Another blue dye | 16 |
| Amine derivative | 16 |
| 'Slumdog Millionaire' actor -- Kapoor | 45 |
| Old-womanish | 12 |
| Doddering | 9 |
| Old womanish | 12 |
| Like a crone | 12 |
| Like an old woman | 17 |
| Like Mother Hubbard | 19 |
| Like a feeble old woman | 23 |
| Infirm | 6 |
| Flighty | 7 |
| Like some dodderers | 19 |
| Like an old lady (anagram of ELIAN) | 35 |
| Like a dottering dowager | 24 |
| Like a doddering old woman | 26 |
| Like a beldam | 13 |
| Foolishly old-womanish | 22 |
| Out of it, in a way | 19 |
| Old-womanish (anagram of LIANE) | 31 |
| Like weak female nonagenarians | 30 |
| Like Ulrica in "Ivanhoe" | 34 |
| Like some senior citizens | 25 |
| Like some oldsters | 18 |
| Like some grandams | 18 |
| Like some beldams | 17 |
| Like Scott's Ulrica | 23 |
| Like Miss Havisham | 18 |
| Like a weak old woman | 21 |
| Like a grandam | 14 |
| Like a doting dowager | 21 |
| ld-womanish | 11 |
| Infirm, in away | 15 |
| Feeble and doddering | 20 |
| Doddery | 7 |
| Doddering, maybe | 16 |
| Kind of dye | 11 |
| Dye ingredient | 14 |
| Oily compound used in dyes | 26 |
| Polyurethane compound | 21 |
| Oil used in making polyurethane | 31 |
| Liquid used in dyes | 19 |
| Dyemaking material | 18 |
| Dyemaking chemical | 18 |
| Dye-making compound | 19 |
| Dye in blue jeans | 17 |
| Dye compound | 12 |
| Dye base | 8 |
| Chemical used in dyes | 21 |
| Lively, in mus. | 15 |
| Lively, in music: Abbr. | 23 |
| Spiritedly, in music: Abbr. | 27 |
| Some cartoons | 13 |
| Not veg. or min. | 16 |
| Music-score abbr. | 17 |
| Lively: Mus. dir. | 17 |
| Lively: Abbr. | 13 |
| Lively, to Liszt: Abbr. | 23 |
| Lively, to Lalo: Abbr. | 22 |
| Lively, to Beethoven: Abbr. | 27 |
| Lively, on scores: Abbr. | 24 |
| Energetically, in mus. | 22 |