Shade of black
The crossword clue "Shade of black" is answered by ONYX, a 4-letter entry. Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 1996. 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
ONYX
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ONYX answer page.
Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 1996. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
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Other clues for ONYX
Every other clue in this collection answered by ONYX, most used first.
- Cameo stone - used 177 times, most recently in 2026
- Jet black - used 60 times, most recently in 2024
- Black gemstone - used 44 times, most recently in 2026
- Black stone - used 35 times, most recently in 2026
- Black gem - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
- Cameo gem - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
- Quartz variety - used 16 times, most recently in 2023
- Chalcedony - used 13 times, most recently in 2005
- Banded stone - used 11 times, most recently in 2023
- Agate variety - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
- Cameo gemstone - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
- Cameo material - used 10 times, most recently in 2015
- Jet-black gemstone - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Variety of agate. - used 10 times, most recently in 2022
- Banded chalcedony - used 9 times, most recently in 2017
- Banded gemstone - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
- Gemstone - used 9 times, most recently in 2004
- Figurine mineral - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Intaglio stone - used 8 times, most recently in 2011
- Semiprecious stone - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
- Banded gem - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
- Banded quartz - used 7 times, most recently in 2010
- Jet-black gem - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
- Jet-black stone - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Variety of chalcedony - used 7 times, most recently in 2014
- Black quartz - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Cameo mineral - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
- Chalcedony variety - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
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- Black - EBON, used 159 times
- Black - INKY, used 125 times
- Shade - TINT, used 102 times
- Black, in verse - EBON, used 99 times
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