The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word BLACK which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 2006.
Shade of 17- and 57-Across crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| BLACK | 100 % | 5 |
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Crossword Answer definitions
BLACK noun- The colour/color perceived in the absence of light, but also when no light is reflected, but rather absorbed.
- A black dye or pigment.
- A pen, pencil, crayon, etc., made of black pigment.
- (in the plural) Black cloth hung up at funerals.
- (sometimes capitalised) A person of African, Aborigine, or Maori descent; a dark-skinned person.
- Blackness, the condition of having dark skin.
- The black ball.
- The edge of home plate.
- A type of firecracker that is really more dark brown in colour.
- Blackcurrant syrup (in mixed drinks, e.g. snakebite and black, cider and black).
- (in chess and similar games) The person playing with the black set of pieces.
- Something, or a part of a thing, which is black.
- A stain; a spot.
- A dark smut fungus, harmful to wheat.
- Marijuana.
- To make black; to blacken.
- To apply blacking to (something).
- To boycott, usually as part of an industrial dispute.
- (of an object) Absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and hueless.
- (of a place, etc) Without light.
- (sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin.
- Designated for use by those ethnic groups which have dark pigmentation of the skin.
- (of a card) Of the spades or clubs suits. Compare red
- Bad; evil; ill-omened.
- Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen.
- (of objects, markets, etc) Illegitimate, illegal or disgraced.
- Overcrowded.
- (of coffee or tea) Without any cream, milk or creamer.
- Of or relating to the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the "black" set (in chess the set used by the player who moves second) (often regardless of the pieces' actual colour).
- Said of a symbol or character that is solid, filled with color. Compare white.
- Related to the Christian Democratic Union of Germany.
- Clandestine; relating to a political, military, or espionage operation or site, the existence or details of which is withheld from the general public.
- Occult; relating to something (such as mystical or magical knowledge) which is unknown to or kept secret from the general public.
- Protestant, often with the implication of being militantly pro-British or anti-Catholic
- Having one or more features (hair, fur, armour, clothes, bark, etc) that is dark (or black); in taxonomy, especially: dark in comparison to another species with the same base name.
- Foul; dirty.
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