Shade of blue.
The crossword clue "Shade of blue." is answered by SLATE, a 5-letter entry. Used 14 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2020; first recorded in 1957. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
SLATE
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SLATE answer page.
Used 14 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2020; first recorded in 1957. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for SLATE
Every other clue in this collection answered by SLATE, most used first.
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- Ballot listing - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
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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.
- Sky blue - AZURE, used 146 times
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- True-blue - LOYAL, used 56 times
- Shade of green - OLIVE, used 51 times
- Green shade - OLIVE, used 47 times
- Purple shade - LILAC, used 47 times
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