Shade of red
The crossword clue "Shade of red" is answered by TOMATO, a 6-letter entry. Used 12 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1955. 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
TOMATO
6 letters. See every clue for this answer on the TOMATO answer page.
Used 12 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1955. 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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