A bit off-color
The crossword clue "A bit off-color" is answered by RACY, a 4-letter entry. Used 9 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2019; first recorded in 2001. 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
RACY
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the RACY answer page.
Used 9 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2019; first recorded in 2001. 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 RACY
Every other clue in this collection answered by RACY, most used first.
- Risqué - used 120 times, most recently in 2026
- Suggestive - used 60 times, most recently in 2026
- Off-color - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
- Piquant - used 20 times, most recently in 1997
- Somewhat improper - used 17 times, most recently in 2024
- Ribald - used 16 times, most recently in 2021
- A bit blue - used 11 times, most recently in 2021
- Somewhat blue - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
- Indelicate - used 7 times, most recently in 2013
- Provocative - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Pungent. - used 7 times, most recently in 1997
- Slightly improper - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
- Somewhat indelicate - used 7 times, most recently in 2007
- Blue - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
- Rather suggestive - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
- Titillating - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
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.
- Give off - EMIT, used 874 times
- Tiny bit - IOTA, used 286 times
- Way off - AFAR, used 229 times
- Off in the distance - AFAR, used 130 times
- Ticked off - SORE, used 123 times
- Give off, as light - EMIT, used 122 times
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