Color shades
The crossword clue "Color shades" is answered by HUES, a 4-letter entry. Used 8 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2023. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
HUES
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the HUES answer page.
Used 8 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2023. It appears in 8 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 HUES
Every other clue in this collection answered by HUES, most used first.
- Shades - used 101 times, most recently in 2026
- Colors - used 94 times, most recently in 2026
- Tints - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
- Colorations - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
- Color tones - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- Tones - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- Shades of color - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Palette array - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
- Spectrum bands - used 10 times, most recently in 2018
- Color variations - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Palette choices - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
- Rainbow components - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
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.
- Water color - AQUA, used 108 times
- Horse color - ROAN, used 89 times
- Lacking color - PALE, used 85 times
- Lose color - FADE, used 85 times
- Color - TINT, used 63 times
- Neutral color - ECRU, used 49 times
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