Lacking color
The crossword clue "Lacking color" is answered by ASHY, a 4-letter entry. Used 10 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 2002. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
ASHY
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ASHY answer page.
Used 10 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 2002. It appears in 9 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.
Other clues for ASHY
Every other clue in this collection answered by ASHY, most used first.
- Pale - used 137 times, most recently in 2026
- Wan - used 101 times, most recently in 2026
- Pallid - used 78 times, most recently in 2025
- Very pale - used 48 times, most recently in 2026
- Grayish - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
- Pale gray - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
- Pale as a ghost - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
- Far from ruddy - used 23 times, most recently in 2023
- Pasty-faced - used 23 times, most recently in 2024
- Gray - used 15 times, most recently in 2020
- Covered with soot - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
- Hardly ruddy - used 12 times, most recently in 2021
- Light-gray. - used 12 times, most recently in 2020
- Like a dirty fireplace - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
- Pale-looking - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Cinereous - used 11 times, most recently in 2012
- Like a fireplace floor - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Pale-faced - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Pallid-looking - used 11 times, most recently in 2018
- White as a ghost - used 11 times, most recently in 2011
- Like an unswept fireplace - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- In need of lotion - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Like a post-eruption landscape - used 8 times, most recently in 2016
- Like an unswept hearth - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Soot-covered - used 8 times, most recently in 2013
- Smudged with soot - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
- Washed-out - used 7 times, most recently in 2014
- Cinder-covered - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Covered with cinders - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Covered with soot, e.g. - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
- Grayish-white - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
- Like a used fireplace - used 6 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.
- Lacking slack - TAUT, used 126 times
- Water color - AQUA, used 108 times
- Horse color - ROAN, used 89 times
- Lacking color - PALE, used 85 times
- Lose color - FADE, used 85 times
- Lacking - SANS, used 78 times
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