Pastel shade
The crossword clue "Pastel shade" is answered by AQUA, a 4-letter entry. Used 47 times across 24 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 1968. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
The answer
AQUA
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the AQUA answer page.
Used 47 times across 24 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 1968. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.
- POWDERBLUE (2 uses in xd)
Other clues for AQUA
Every other clue in this collection answered by AQUA, most used first.
- Blue hue - used 135 times, most recently in 2026
- Greenish-blue - used 111 times, most recently in 2024
- Water color - used 108 times, most recently in 2026
- Bluish-green - used 41 times, most recently in 2025
- Shade of blue - used 39 times, most recently in 2026
- Blue shade - used 31 times, most recently in 2023
- Blue-green shade - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
- Light greenish-blue - used 28 times, most recently in 2021
- Blue-green - used 25 times, most recently in 2025
- Pastel hue - used 23 times, most recently in 2025
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- Shade trees - ELMS, used 266 times
- Shade - TINT, used 102 times
- Shade of green - NILE, used 90 times
- Neutral shade - ECRU, used 78 times
- Shade of blue - TEAL, used 54 times
- Stocking shade - ECRU, used 52 times
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