Possible Clues:

• Wound allowed to get red
• In other words, a rogue — but not very immoral
• 12 linked with 22 is far from 2
• The colour of clarets
• The colour of clarets?
• Allow small Mini, say, to start off red
• Claret's possibly this shade of red
• Like an infamous "A"
• Colour Zeiss introduced to sequence?
• Would Mark let one look like the start of 8 down?