Shoe shade

The answer

TAN

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

Used 27 times across 17 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1954. It appears in 3 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
• Shoe hue - used 36 times, most recently in 2025
• Thrash - used 35 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.

• Shade tree - ELM, used 437 times
• Shade - HUE, used 310 times
• Shoe width - EEE, used 163 times
• Blond shade - ASH, used 151 times
• Shade provider - ELM, used 97 times
• Blonde shade - ASH, used 95 times

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