Like a post-eruption landscape

The answer

ASHY

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ASHY answer page.

Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2016; first recorded in 2002. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

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
• Lacking color - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
• Like an unswept fireplace - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• In need of lotion - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• 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.

• Like ___ of bricks - ATON, used 201 times
• Fly like an eagle - SOAR, used 141 times
• Like some vaccines - ORAL, used 103 times
• Like fine wine - AGED, used 99 times
• Sleep like ___ - ALOG, used 96 times
• Move like molasses - OOZE, used 83 times

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