Blue shade
The crossword clue "Blue shade" is answered by COBALT, a 6-letter entry. Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 2002. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
COBALT
6 letters. See every clue for this answer on the COBALT answer page.
Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 2002. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for COBALT
Every other clue in this collection answered by COBALT, most used first.
- Shade of blue - used 29 times, most recently in 2025
- Blue hue - used 15 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.
- Red shade - CERISE, used 31 times
- Once in a blue moon - RARELY, used 27 times
- Soft shade - PASTEL, used 21 times
- Once in a blue moon - SELDOM, used 20 times
- Shade of red - CERISE, used 20 times
- Make blue - SADDEN, used 19 times
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