The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 3 letter word HUE , but the solution may also be DYE which is one of the most recent solution (2025 in LA Times).
Color crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| HUE | 21 % | 3 |
| TAN | 10 % | 3 |
| DYE | 9 % | 3 |
| TINT | 8 % | 4 |
| ECRU | 8 % | 4 |
| ROSE | 2 % | 4 |
| RED | 2 % | 3 |
| TAUPE | 2 % | 5 |
| ORANGE | 2 % | 6 |
| DUN | 2 % | 3 |
| MAUVE | 2 % | 5 |
| CORAL | 2 % | 5 |
| AMBER | 1 % | 5 |
| TINCT | 1 % | 5 |
| AQUA | 1 % | 4 |
| STAIN | 1 % | 5 |
| CERISE | 1 % | 6 |
| IVORY | 1 % | 5 |
| BEIGE | 1 % | 5 |
| AZURE | 1 % | 5 |
| SEPIA | 1 % | 5 |
| LILAC | 1 % | 5 |
| TINGE | 1 % | 5 |
| MAROON | 1 % | 6 |
| OLIVE | 1 % | 5 |
| EMERALD | 1 % | 7 |
| PUCE | 1 % | 4 |
| JADE | 1 % | 4 |
| ROAN | 1 % | 4 |
| OCHRE | 0 % | 5 |
| MAGENTA | 0 % | 7 |
| VIOLET | 0 % | 6 |
| ROSERED | 0 % | 7 |
| EBON | 0 % | 4 |
| RUST | 0 % | 4 |
| GRAY | 0 % | 4 |
| PEACH | 0 % | 5 |
| BLOODRED | 0 % | 8 |
| NAVY | 0 % | 4 |
| SEAGREEN | 0 % | 8 |
| SAND | 0 % | 4 |
| NILEBLUE | 0 % | 8 |
| BEETRED | 0 % | 7 |
| ASH | 0 % | 3 |
| SALMONPINK | 0 % | 10 |
| SLATEGRAY | 0 % | 9 |
| SHADE | 0 % | 5 |
| RUBY | 0 % | 4 |
| BLUERED | 0 % | 7 |
| CLARET | 0 % | 6 |
| CHROMA | 0 % | 6 |
| GREEN | 0 % | 5 |
| OCHER | 0 % | 5 |
| OLIVEGREEN | 0 % | 10 |
| PAINT | 0 % | 5 |
| OLDGOLD | 0 % | 7 |
| SKYBLUE | 0 % | 7 |
| PEAGREEN | 0 % | 8 |
| ROYALBLUE | 0 % | 9 |
| BIAS | 0 % | 4 |
| PINK | 0 % | 4 |
| YELLOWRED | 0 % | 9 |
| UMBER | 0 % | 5 |
| BLUE | 0 % | 4 |
| CHINESERED | 0 % | 10 |
| KHAKI | 0 % | 5 |
| CREAM | 0 % | 5 |
| AMETHYST | 0 % | 8 |
| COBALTBLUE | 0 % | 10 |
| INDIGO | 0 % | 6 |
| TONE | 0 % | 4 |
| KELLYGREEN | 0 % | 10 |
| STEELGRAY | 0 % | 9 |
| RUSSET | 0 % | 6 |
| SCARLET | 0 % | 7 |
Why may DYE be the right solution?
"DYE" is the right answer because color can be added or changed using dyes. Dye is a substance used to change the color of something, like fabric or hair.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Color
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- panchromatic
- colouring
- colour in
- color in
- gloss
- semblance
- colour
- vividness
- emblazon
- distort
- people of color
- people of colour
Crossword Answer definitions
HUE noun- A color, or shade of color; tint; dye.
- The characteristic related to the light frequency that appears in the color, for instance red, yellow, green, cyan, blue or magenta.
- A character; aspect.
- Form; appearance; guise.
- A shout or cry.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result HUE
More clues leading to the result TAN
- Catch rays
- Catch some rays
- Convert to leather
- Fan-__ (Chinese card game)
- Not pale
- Whale the tar out of
- Florida acquisition
- Summer shade
- Yellowish brown
- "The Joy Luck Club" author
More clues leading to the result DYE
- Color
- Hair coloring
- Salon selection
- Woad, e.g.
- Hair preparation
- Job in a beauty parlor
- Cover the gray
- Do batik
- Salon stuff
- Tie-__ ('60s-style)
More clues leading to the result TINT
- Barely detectable amount
- Hair dye
- Hint of color
- Nuance
- Slight coloration
- Hue
- Gradation of color
- Hue for the hair
- Salon job
- Shade
More clues leading to the result ECRU
- Beige
- Color of many crosswords?
- Light brown color
- Neutral color
- Off-white
- Pale beige
- Pale yellow
- Earth tone
- Hose hue
- Hosiery shade
More clues leading to the result ROSE
- American Beauty
- "My Wild Irish ___"
- Floral gift
- Appreciated in value
- Color of some glasses?
- Proliferated
- Thorny bush
- Abie's girl
- Golden Girl
- One of the Golden Girls
More clues leading to the result RED
- "The Hunt for ___ October"
- Embarrassed-looking
- Embarrassing color
- Part of Roy G. Biv
- Rubicund
- Shade of embarrassment
- Blushing
- Capitalist's dreaded ink color
- Checkers choice
- Color of embarrassment
More clues leading to the result TAUPE
- Popular hosiery shade
- Brownish gray
- Hosiery shade
- Boring shade
- Color that means "mole" in French
- Brownish-gray shade
- Dull earth tone
- Mousy color
- Neutral shade
- Moderate gray
More clues leading to the result ORANGE
- Florida product
- Baltimore Orioles uniform color
- Color that, I hear, is the new black
- Fanta color
- Sunset shade
- Bowl in Miami
- Valencia, e.g.
- Dutch dynastic name
- Vitamin C provider
- One of the Bowls
More clues leading to the result DUN
- Demand payment
- Hound
- Hound for money
- Pester for payment
- Demand payment from
- Press for payment
- Brownish-gray
- Grayish brown
- Pester about payment
- Grayish-brown
More clues leading to the result MAUVE
- Pale blue-purple
- Lilac relative
- Bluish purple
- Sunset color
- Pale purple
- Pale bluish purple
- Shade of purple
- Purplish shade
- Purple shade
- The ___ Decade (Gay Nineties)
More clues leading to the result CORAL
- Color close to salmon
- RED
- Reef material
- Reef builder
- Reef deposit
- Reef growth
- Invertebrate in some endangered structures
- Salmon relative
- Apricot alternative
- Pink color
More clues leading to the result AMBER
- Fossil resin
- Resin
- Waves of grain color
- "Jurassic Park" mosquito preserver
- The color of honey
- Forever __
- Insect-trapping goo
- Honey-colored
- Old bug-trapper
- Yellowish-brown
More clues leading to the result TINCT
- Colored lightly
- Coloring
- Add some color to
- Slight shading
- Color lightly
- Alcohol-based, to a pharmacist (abbr.)
- Touch of color
- Add a bit of color
- Add color to
- Color faintly
More clues leading to the result AQUA
- Seawater color
- A pastel
- Greener shade of blue
- Pale blue-green
- Shade of blue
- Water color
- __ regia
- Blue hue
- Bluish
- Pastel shade
More clues leading to the result STAIN
- Leaky-pen consequence
- Mark of disgrace
- Woodworker's need
- Blemish
- Blotch
- Discoloration
- Sully
- "The Human ___" (Philip Roth)
- Disgrace
- Finish up some furniture
More clues leading to the result CERISE
- Cherry hue
- Red shade
- Shade close to claret
- Very like a cherry
- Moderate red
- Red as a cherry
- Vivid purplish red
- Deep red
- Crayola color introduced in 1993
- Cherry color
More clues leading to the result IVORY
- Kind of tower
- Banned article of trade
- Tusk material
- Piano key material
- Scrimshaw material
- Walrus tusks
- What some keys are made of
- Soap brand
- White piano key, informally
- Key material
More clues leading to the result BEIGE
- Neutral color
- Light brown
- Neutral shade
- Off-white
- Tan
- Pale brown
- Unbleached hue
- Biscuit-hued
- Neutral hue
- Undyed wool fabric
More clues leading to the result AZURE
- Sky-blue
- Sky-blue color
- Sky-colored
- Cerulean
- Blue hue
- Color on the United Nations flag
- Kind of blue
- Sky blue
- Blue as the sky
- Like a jay of Brazil
More clues leading to the result SEPIA
- Brown shade
- Tone in Wild West-themed photo shoots
- Oft-used Instagram filter
- Tintype tone
- Print tint
- Instagram effect
- Shade of brown
- Old photo
- Ink from cuttlefish
- Vintage photo hue
More clues leading to the result LILAC
- Fragrant flower
- Pale purple
- Sign of spring
- Whitman memorial flower
- Purple bloomer
- Spring bloom
- Whitman's dooryard bloomer
- Purplish hue
- Violet shade
- Air-freshener scent
More clues leading to the result TINGE
- Affect slightly
- Slight coloration
- Hint
- Hint of tint
- Faint feeling
- Bit of color
- Slight coloring
- Slight shade
- Hint of color
- Barest trace
More clues leading to the result MAROON
- Leave high and dry
- Strand
- Color similar to cranberry
- Reddish-brown hue
- Shade of brown
- Strand on the sea
- Boston College hue
- Fordham University color
- Leave on an island
- Leave in the lurch
More clues leading to the result OLIVE
- "Thimble Theatre" name
- Martini garnish
- Place for a pimento
- Stuffed salad ingredient
- __ branch (peace offering)
- Cocktail garnish
- Kind of drab
- Miss Oyl?
- Miss Oyl
- Popeye's gal
More clues leading to the result EMERALD
- Green ice?
- Gemstone
- Piece of green ice?
- Green rock
- Taurus's gemstone
- May emblem
- Rich green
- Green beryl
- Green gem
- Shade of green
More clues leading to the result PUCE
- Purplish red
- Color that means "flea" in French
- Purple hue
- Reddish brown color
- Shade of red that means "flea"
- Brownish purple
- Purple shade
- Purplish brown
- Brownish-purple
- Color akin to cranberry
More clues leading to the result JADE
- Green gem
- Wear out by overuse
- Chinese gemstone
- Green mineral
- Become dull
- 35th anniversary gift
- Green stone
- Make weary
- Stone for carving
- Gem for carving
More clues leading to the result ROAN
- Chestnut horse
- Colorful horse
- Colt color
- Equine color
- Horse of a certain color
- Sorrel
- Horse color
- Brown-and-white horse, e.g.
- Colorful mount
- Bookbinding material
More clues leading to the result OCHRE
- Earthy pigment
- Earth tone
- Earthy color
- Iron oxide mixture
- Yellow shade
- Brownish pigment
- Earth pigment
- Dark Yellow pigment
- Dark yellow colour
- Reddish yellow (var.)
More clues leading to the result MAGENTA
- Purplish red
- Shade of red
- Hue in the T Mobile logo
- Purplish shade
- Color used in four-color processing
- Color complementing cyan, yellow, and black
- Plum relative
- Purplish hue
- Color in four-color printing
- Purple shade
More clues leading to the result VIOLET
- Ultra follower
- Meadow flower
- Color at the end of the visible spectrum
- A rainbow's end?
- Rainbow's innermost
- ROY G BIV member
- Rainbow colour
- Part of ROY G. BIV
- One end of the spectrum
- End of a rainbow?
More clues leading to the result ROSERED
- Snow White's sister
- Sister of Snow White
- Snow White's sister in a fairy tale
- Fairy-tale character who befriends an enchanted bear
- 2002 Stephen King miniseries
- Snow-White's sister, in a Grimm tale
- Like an American Beauty
- Pinkish hue
- Fairy-tale sister
- Grimm heroine
More clues leading to the result EBON
- Black in color
- Black, poetically
- Black, to Blake
- Black, to Byron
- Cimmerian
- Dark, poetically
- Deep black
- Extremely dark
- Inky
- Made of a hardwood
More clues leading to the result RUST
- Deteriorate
- Clunker feature
- Corrode
- Sign of deterioration
- Reddish-brown
- Common corrosion
- Corrosion cause
- Degenerate from lack of use
- Reddish-brown shade
- Sign of disuse
More clues leading to the result GRAY
- _____ matter (brains)
- Black and white mix
- Drabble character Jane
- Gloomy
- Ashen
- Davis of note
- Like overcast skies
- Sweats shade
- ___ notes (wine characteristic)
- CSA color
More clues leading to the result PEACH
- Georgia product
- Princess in the Super Mario universe
- Pinkish-yellow shade
- Dilly
- Nectarine, for one
- Freestone fruit
- Kind of cobbler
- Light pinkish yellow color
- Yellowish pink
- Keen fruit?
More clues leading to the result BLOODRED
- Deep crimson
- Describing a harvest moon.
- Color.
- Like some tomatoes
- Crimson
- Cherry-colored
- Vivid valentine color
- Like the moon during a total lunar eclipse
- Ruby
More clues leading to the result NAVY
- Flotilla
- Blue shade
- Shade of blue
- Kind of blue
- They're known for shipping
- Dark blue
- The Midshipmen
- Blue hue
- Sox cap hue option
- Its mascot is a goat
More clues leading to the result SEAGREEN
- Marine shade
- Cool shade
- Ocean color
- Color.
- Ocean color.
- Aquamarine.
- Color
- Water color
- Color of the Emerald Isle's waters
- Crayola color akin to fern
More clues leading to the result SAND
- Castle material?
- Make smooth
- Smooth down
- ___ box: playground feature
- Bunker filler
- Chopin's companion
- Starter for bar or bag
- Word before hill or dollar
- Beach covering
- Hourglass contents
More clues leading to the result NILEBLUE
- Water color?
- Color akin to turquoise
- Aquamarine
- Turquoise lookalike
- Color similar to cerulean
- Color named for river water
- Color similar to turquoise
- Color.
- Relative of turquoise
More clues leading to the result BEETRED
- Embarrassed, and then some
- The color of anger
- Color of deep embarrassment
- Visibly embarrassed
- Brightly embarrassed
- Embarrassing shade
- Really sunburned
- Visibly furious
- The color of embarrassment
- Embarrassed, maybe
More clues leading to the result ASH
- "Louisville Slugger" wood
- Barbecue leftover?
- Bat wood
- Blonde shade
- Campfire fallout
- Elastic furniture wood
- Elastic wood
- Eruption fallout
- Fireplace remnant
- Hardwood
More clues leading to the result SALMONPINK
More clues leading to the result SLATEGRAY
More clues leading to the result SHADE
- Elm offering
- Protect, in a way
- Color variation
- Bed Bath & Beyond purchase
- Color choice
- What sombreros offer
- Nuance
- Chiaroscuro feature
- Coloration
- What an elm casts
More clues leading to the result RUBY
- Precious stone
- Red stone
- STEP A) Start up the ___ laser, which burns through some ...
- 40th anniversary gift
- July emblem
- Red gem
- Keeler of "42nd Street"
- 40th-anniversary symbol
- Deep red
- Deep red hue
More clues leading to the result BLUERED
More clues leading to the result CLARET
- Dry wine
- Bordeaux wine
- Red Bordeaux wine
- Red table wine
- Red Bordeaux
- Bordeaux, in Britain
- Red wine
- Bordeaux product
- Horace Rumpole's drink of choice
- Bordeaux
More clues leading to the result CHROMA
More clues leading to the result GREEN
- Environmentally correct
- Chip-shot destination
- Ralph Nader's party
- Unripe
- Tee shot's target
- Tiger's target
- Flag locale
- Untested
- Putting place
- R.E.M.'s major label debut
More clues leading to the result OCHER
- Earthy tone
- Earthy pigment
- Autumn color
- Reddish yellow
- Yellow pigment
- Earth pigment
- Earth tone
- Reddish pigment
- Pompeii pigment
- Orange-yellow hue
More clues leading to the result OLIVEGREEN
- Like many a warbler's plumage
- Drab uniform color
- Army Jeep color
- Color.
- Color of 18 Across.
- Color for dresses or cars
- Popeye's favorite color?
- Color in some military uniforms
More clues leading to the result PAINT
- "___ It Blue" (Songs of the Rolling Stones')
- Latex container
- Wall cover
- Create some strokes
- Cosmetic
- Work on walls
- 54-Down on a wall
- House coat?
- Emulate Franklin Carmichael or Emily Carr
- Coat of many colors?
More clues leading to the result OLDGOLD
- Dancing cigarette pack of the 1950s
- Of a reddish yellow.
- Color.
- Dark yellow color
- Its slogan was once "Not a cough in a carload"
- Cigarette brand that once used the slogan "Not a cough in a carload"
- Defunct cigarette brand
- Cigarette brand with a rhyming name
- Cigarette brand advertised by Babe Ruth
More clues leading to the result SKYBLUE
- Cerulean
- Azure
- Crayola color since 1957
- Cornflower relative
- Color in large Crayola packs
- Landscape artist's shade
- Color named for a natural phenomenon
- Color.
- Lazuline
- Pilot's favorite color?
More clues leading to the result PEAGREEN
- Color of the Owl and the Pussycat's boat
- Legume's color, perhaps
- *Hue akin to avocado
- Descriptive of the Owl and the Pussy-Cat's boat.
- Color of Owl's and Pussy-Cat's boat.
- Color.
- Light color
- "In a beautiful ___ boat": Lear
- Like the Owl and the Pussy-Cat's boat
- Olive cousin
More clues leading to the result ROYALBLUE
More clues leading to the result BIAS
- Diagonal
- Diagonal cut
- It isn't fair
- It's not fair
- __-ply tire
- Slant
- Inclination
- Leaning
- CNN's "No ___. No Bull."
- Media Matters subject
More clues leading to the result PINK
- Like many a flamingo
- Hot ___
- Like rare meat
- Red and bloody, perhaps
- Best condition
- Carnation
- Alecia Moore's stage name
- Medium-rare, maybe
- Lemonade shade
- Like cowherb blooms
More clues leading to the result YELLOWRED
More clues leading to the result UMBER
- Earth tone
- Earthy tone
- Brownish
- Brownish hue
- B(eams f)ro(m he)wn t(rees used as c)on(struction mat)e(rial)
- "Burnt" color
- Raw ___
- Earthy pigment
- *It might be real or imaginary
- Dark reddish brown
More clues leading to the result BLUE
- "Am I __"
- A primary color
- Dejected
- Like Carl Perkins's suede shoes
- Sad
- Babe's color
- Depressed
- Down in the dumps
- Down
- Like Smurfs
More clues leading to the result CHINESERED
More clues leading to the result KHAKI
- Country club pants color
- Uniform hue
- Chinos color
- Uniform material
- Chinos shade
- Uniform color
- Park-ranger garb material, often
- Soldier material?
- Uniform cloth
- Pants material
More clues leading to the result CREAM
- Beat the daylights out of
- Defeat decisively
- Word with ice or cold
- Crop top?
- Cold or ice ender
- Best of the best
- 1960s rock group
- Baker, Bruce, and Clapton
- Elite
- Dairy purchase
More clues leading to the result AMETHYST
- Birthstone
- February birthstone
- Transparent gemstone
- Purple corundum
- Purple gemstone
- Gift for an Aquarius, maybe
- Purple birthstone
- Birthstone that was once believed to prevent intoxication
- Purple hue
- Violet gem
More clues leading to the result COBALTBLUE
- Color on the Nevada state flag
- Color used in stained glass
- Color.
- Pigment used in glassmaking
- "Element #27 Suffering From Severe Depression!"
More clues leading to the result INDIGO
- Ellington's "Mood __"
- ___ Girls
- The I of ROY G. BIV
- Spectrum component
- Prism bar?
- Ellington's "Mood ___"
- "Mood ___" (Sinatra song)
- Blue shade
- "Mood ___" (Ellington song)
- ___ Girls ("Closer to Fine" singers)
More clues leading to the result TONE
- Answering-machine sound
- Musician's concern
- Sound quality
- The sound of music
- Vocal quality
- Strad feature
- Two-__ (like some cars)
- Muscle quality
- Pitch
- Musical sound
More clues leading to the result KELLYGREEN
- Yellowish foliage color
- Jersey color formerly used by the Eagles and the A's
- Money earned by dancer Gene?
- Color.
- Slightly yellowish color
- Good color for St. Patrick's Day
- Color much worn on St. Patrick's Day
- Singers Tori and Al?
More clues leading to the result STEELGRAY
- Brillo pad color?
- Standard file cabinet color
- Battleship color
- Color of a battleship.
- Color.
- Shade similar to gunmetal
More clues leading to the result RUSSET
- Winter apple
- Reddish brown
- Kind of potato
- Apple or potato
- Apple often rough-skinned
- Fall foliage shade
- Reddish hue
- Common potato
- Apple variety
- Autumn apple