Red shade
The crossword clue "Red shade" is answered by RUBY, a 4-letter entry. Used 8 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2016; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
RUBY
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the RUBY answer page.
Used 8 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2016; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for RUBY
Every other clue in this collection answered by RUBY, most used first.
- July birthstone - used 46 times, most recently in 2026
- Red gem - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
- Red gemstone - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- Shade of red - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
- Deep red - used 10 times, most recently in 2017
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.
- Shade trees - ELMS, used 266 times
- Red Muppet - ELMO, used 131 times
- ___ the Red - ERIC, used 103 times
- Shade - TINT, used 102 times
- Shade of green - NILE, used 90 times
- Neutral shade - ECRU, used 78 times
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