Blue shade
The crossword clue "Blue shade" is answered by TEAL, a 4-letter entry. Used 47 times across 23 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1971. It appears in 10 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
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TEAL
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Used 47 times across 23 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1971. It appears in 10 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for TEAL
Every other clue in this collection answered by TEAL, most used first.
- Greenish blue - used 130 times, most recently in 2026
- Blue hue - used 81 times, most recently in 2026
- River duck - used 71 times, most recently in 2019
- Blue-green - used 61 times, most recently in 2026
- Shade of blue - used 54 times, most recently in 2021
- Blue-green shade - used 50 times, most recently in 2026
- Freshwater duck - used 48 times, most recently in 2023
- Bluish green - used 46 times, most recently in 2025
- Small duck - used 38 times, most recently in 2026
- Duck - used 34 times, most recently in 2017
- Blue-green color - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
- Dabbling duck - used 27 times, most recently in 2025
- Pond duck - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
- Blue-green hue - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
- Marsh duck - used 24 times, most recently in 2025
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 trees - ELMS, used 266 times
- Blue-pencil - EDIT, used 151 times
- Blue hue - AQUA, used 135 times
- Blue dye - ANIL, used 116 times
- Greenish-blue - AQUA, used 111 times
- Morales of "NYPD Blue" - ESAI, used 104 times
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