Gets some color
The crossword clue "Gets some color" is answered by TANS, a 4-letter entry. Used 10 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
TANS
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the TANS answer page.
Used 10 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for TANS
Every other clue in this collection answered by TANS, most used first.
- Catches some rays - used 57 times, most recently in 2026
- Sunbathes - used 41 times, most recently in 2026
- Brown shades - used 29 times, most recently in 2024
- Gets some sun - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
- Earth tones - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
- Browns - used 21 times, most recently in 2025
- Light browns - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
- Thrashes - used 17 times, most recently in 2009
- Neutral shades - used 15 times, most recently in 2022
- Salon offerings - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
- Summer shades - used 12 times, most recently in 2020
- Works leather - used 12 times, most recently in 2023
- Colors. - used 11 times, most recently in 2019
- Makes leather - used 11 times, most recently in 2020
- Sun shades. - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Beach shades - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Gets some color at the beach - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- Beach acquisitions - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
- Soaks up the sun - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Summer acquisitions - used 9 times, most recently in 2012
- Whips - used 9 times, most recently in 2015
- Basks in the sun - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Whups - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
- Darkens in the sun - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Light shades - used 7 times, most recently in 2006
- Prepares leather - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Sits in the sun - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Sunbathers' goals - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
- Treats hides - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
- Converts into leather - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
- Soaks up rays - used 6 times, most recently in 2007
- Soaks up some sun - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
- Turns bronze - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
- Turns into leather - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
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.
- Gets older - AGES, used 136 times
- Some - AFEW, used 116 times
- Water color - AQUA, used 108 times
- Like some vaccines - ORAL, used 103 times
- Horse color - ROAN, used 89 times
- Lacking color - PALE, used 85 times
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