Possible Clues:

• The colour of clarets
• 12 linked with 22 is far from 2
• Allow small Mini, say, to start off red
• Wound allowed to get red
• In other words, a rogue — but not very immoral
• Color similar to poppy
• The colour of clarets?
• Claret's alternatively red
• Like an infamous "A"
• Red ends of electrical wire seen in plug