Neutral shades
The crossword clue "Neutral shades" is answered by TANS, a 4-letter entry. Used 15 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 1995. 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 15 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 1995. It appears in 8 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.
- BEIGES (3 uses in xd)
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
- 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 - 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.
- Shades - HUES, used 101 times
- Neutral shade - ECRU, used 78 times
- Run in neutral - IDLE, used 70 times
- Neutral color - ECRU, used 49 times
- Neutral hue - ECRU, used 33 times
- Neutral tone - ECRU, used 30 times
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