Brown shade
The crossword clue "Brown shade" is answered by SEPIA, a 5-letter entry. Used 31 times across 20 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1957. It appears in 12 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
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SEPIA
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Used 31 times across 20 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1957. It appears in 12 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for SEPIA
Every other clue in this collection answered by SEPIA, most used first.
- Old photo tint - used 78 times, most recently in 2026
- Brown pigment - used 25 times, most recently in 2022
- Dark brown - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
- Brownish photo tint - used 23 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.
- Brown ermine - STOAT, used 109 times
- Shade of green - OLIVE, used 51 times
- Green shade - OLIVE, used 47 times
- Light brown - BEIGE, used 47 times
- Purple shade - LILAC, used 47 times
- Purple shade - MAUVE, used 47 times
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