Shade in old pictures
The crossword clue "Shade in old pictures" is answered by SEPIA, a 5-letter entry. Used 6 times across 4 distinct years; most recently in 2012; first recorded in 2004. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus.
The answer
SEPIA
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SEPIA answer page.
Used 6 times across 4 distinct years; most recently in 2012; first recorded in 2004. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.
- SEPIATONE (1 uses in xd)
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 shade - used 31 times, most recently in 2025
- 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
- Old photo tone - used 21 times, most recently in 2024
- Photo tint - used 20 times, most recently in 2025
- Brown tint - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- Old photo color - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
- Photo tone - used 14 times, most recently in 2023
- Brown photo tint - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Print tint - used 12 times, most recently in 2020
- Art photo shade - used 10 times, most recently in 2014
- Brown-toned photo - used 10 times, most recently in 2019
- Cuttlefish ink - used 10 times, most recently in 2000
- Old photo hue - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Brown-tinted photo - used 9 times, most recently in 2014
- Photo finish? - used 9 times, most recently in 2020
- Antique photo tone - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Cuttlefish - used 8 times, most recently in 1991
- Dark brown pigment - used 8 times, most recently in 2016
- Retro photo - used 8 times, most recently in 2014
- Vintage photo tone - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Brown photo tone - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Early photo color - used 7 times, most recently in 2014
- Brown tone - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
- Old photograph color - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
- Old-timey photo tone - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Reddish brown - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
- Vintage hue on a photo app - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
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