Reddish-brown shade
The crossword clue "Reddish-brown shade" is answered by RUST, a 4-letter entry. Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 2001. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
RUST
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the RUST answer page.
Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 2001. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for RUST
Every other clue in this collection answered by RUST, most used first.
- Reddish brown - used 63 times, most recently in 2026
- Sign of disuse - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
- Metal corrosion - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
- Corrode - used 26 times, most recently in 2024
- Oxidize - used 25 times, most recently in 2025
- Corrosion - used 10 times, most recently in 2012
- Deteriorate - used 10 times, most recently in 2013
- Iron oxide - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Sign of neglect - used 9 times, most recently in 2022
- Corrosion of iron - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Reddish-brown color - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Reddish color. - used 8 times, most recently in 1975
- Fall shade - used 7 times, most recently in 2008
- Iron corrosion - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Lack of practice, metaphorically - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Oxidation - used 7 times, most recently in 2018
- Oxidation result - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Pipe problem - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Sign of aging - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Sign of corrosion - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Clunker feature - used 6 times, most recently in 2007
- Tin Woodman's trouble - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- What stainless steel doesn't do - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
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
- Shade - TINT, used 102 times
- Light brown - ECRU, used 95 times
- Shade of green - NILE, used 90 times
- Neutral shade - ECRU, used 78 times
- Reddish horse - ROAN, used 70 times
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