Shoe hue

The answer

TAN

3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the TAN answer page.

Used 36 times across 15 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2001. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for TAN

Every other clue in this collection answered by TAN, most used first.

• Light brown - used 186 times, most recently in 2026
• Sunbather's goal - used 78 times, most recently in 2026
• Brown shade - used 58 times, most recently in 2026
• Catch some rays - used 57 times, most recently in 2026
• Sandy color - used 47 times, most recently in 2026
• Color. - used 46 times, most recently in 1995
• Summer shade - used 40 times, most recently in 2025
• "The Joy Luck Club" author - used 37 times, most recently in 2026
• Thrash - used 35 times, most recently in 2025
• Shoe shade - used 27 times, most recently in 2025
• Beachgoer's goal - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
• Light brown color - used 23 times, most recently in 2025
• Sun shade? - used 23 times, most recently in 2025
• Shade of brown - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
• Bronze - used 21 times, most recently in 2026

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.

• Shoe width - EEE, used 163 times
• Wide shoe width - EEE, used 68 times
• Wide shoe size - EEE, used 60 times
• Soft shoe, for short - MOC, used 47 times
• Shoe part - TOE, used 46 times
• Wide shoe spec - EEE, used 40 times

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