| Violet-blue colour |
The Telegraph Quick |
31 Oct 2025 |
| Dye from ink did mostly vanish |
The Telegraph Toughie |
10 Oct 2025 |
| Sort of doing without one shade of colour (6) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
22 Sep 2025 |
| Dark blue dye |
Puzzler Backwords |
19 Sep 2025 |
| The "I" in ROY G. BIV |
Commuter |
15 Sep 2025 |
| Deep blue |
Eugene Sheffer |
08 Sep 2025 |
| 'Blue', as one might say on venturing inside without date (6) |
The Guardian Cryptic |
04 Sep 2025 |
| Colour of trendy work outfit, basically (6) |
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| One of the seven colours of the rainbow (6) |
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| Violet-blue mythical monster decapitated |
The Telegraph Toughie |
18 Jul 2025 |
| Sixth listed colour of the rainbow (6) |
|
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| Rainbow color between blue and violet |
|
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| Colour of the rainbow between blue and violet (6) |
|
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| Rainbow band |
LA Times Daily |
11 Jun 2025 |
| Bluish dye |
Puzzler Backwords |
04 Jun 2025 |
| At "One is doing wrong" colour (6) |
|
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| Blue dye originally obtained from the anil plant (6) |
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| Finds bigot excluding outsiders of colour? |
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| One doing exercises in the shade (6) |
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| Bluish colour whose name comes from the ancient dye of the same name (6) |
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| "Mood ___," classic song by Duke Ellington ... or a deep shade of 38a |
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| Kind of Blue - improvised at first, then doing changes |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
25 Apr 2025 |
| Nation needing energy to replace atomic plant |
The Telegraph Toughie |
24 Apr 2025 |
| Dark blue dye |
Puzzler Backwords |
22 Apr 2025 |
| Shade one doing exercises |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
21 Apr 2025 |
| Airline launching direct flights from Mumbai to Seychelles and Bhubaneshwar to Goa. (6) |
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| No! I dig it! It's blue! (6) |
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| I'm going in to hug daughter, kind of blue? (6) |
|
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| Blue dye |
The Telegraph Quick |
15 Mar 2025 |
| Deep blue colour or dye |
|
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| Spectral colour |
Mirror Classic |
07 Mar 2025 |
| Rainbow colour (6) |
The Guardian Quick |
04 Mar 2025 |
| Blue stuff? I really enjoy absorbing new source of obscenity |
|
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| Deep blue in a rainbow |
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| Purplish-blue shade in rainbow |
|
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| Colour used finally in my opening statement? (6) |
The Guardian Cryptic |
25 Feb 2025 |
| ___ Girls ("Closer to Fine" band) |
|
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| Dark denim colour (6) |
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| Woad dye |
The Times Sunday Concise |
26 Jan 2025 |
| At home, dig nothing when kind of blue (6) |
|
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| Spectrum color |
Thomas Joseph |
13 Jan 2025 |
| I get in with my dog, Blue |
|
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| Dark blue dye |
Mirror Classic |
01 Jan 2025 |
| Fashionable dig nothing but deep blue |
|
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| Shade between blue and violet (6) |
|
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| Colour of the rainbow, or an ancient dye (6) |
|
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| The one doing exercises in the shade (6) |
|
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| During excavation, ring found of dark greyish-blue colour (6) |
|
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| Blue in archeological site job centre (6) |
|
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| The I in ROY G. BIV |
Commuter |
13 Nov 2024 |
| Shade of some jeans |
|
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| Blue dye originally obtained from the plant anil (6) |
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| At home, enjoy nothing but colour (6) |
|
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| Colour I associate with wrongdoing (6) |
|
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| Blue dye obtained from a Southeast Asian flowering shrub (6) |
|
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| Dark blue |
Puzzler Backwords |
20 Oct 2024 |
| Violet-blue dye obtained from a plant of the same name (6) |
|
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| In a bind, I go for colour (6) |
|
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| Small record label curtailed attempt to produce one of the blues |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
14 Oct 2024 |
| Rainbow shade |
The Telegraph Quick |
13 Oct 2024 |
| Violet and I doing wrong (6) |
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| Blue-violet hue |
TV |
06 Oct 2024 |
| Architect Jones includes a bit of dark colour |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
05 Oct 2024 |
| A shrub found at the end of the rainbow (6) |
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| One doing wrong colour (6) |
|
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| Dark purplish blue (6) |
Puzzler |
28 Sep 2024 |
| Rich blue colour |
|
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| Shade I like, certainly not going outside (6) |
|
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| Colour of home before excavation over (6) |
The Guardian Cryptic |
03 Sep 2024 |
| Dark blue colour (6) |
The Guardian Speedy |
02 Sep 2024 |
| Dark blue colour (6) |
The Guardian Speedy |
01 Sep 2024 |
| ___ Girls ("Least Complicated" singers) |
|
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| One dingo is frolicking in the shade (6) |
|
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| Stripe between 86-Down and violet |
LA Times Daily |
28 Jul 2024 |
| Rainbow colour |
Mirror Classic |
19 Jul 2024 |
| I'd go in for new blue dye (6) |
|
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| I'd go in for colour mixing (6) |
|
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| Taunt amid home circle is blue (6) |
|
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| The colour of one wild dingo! (6) |
|
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| Blue hue |
Thomas Joseph |
03 Jul 2024 |
| A colour of the rainbow (6) |
|
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| Blue vat dye (6) |
|
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| Deep blue dye obtained from a plant of the same name (6) |
|
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| Natural blue dye (6) |
|
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| Doing badly after current blue (6) |
|
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| One dingo mongrel is almost blue (6) |
|
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| Blue dye I'd go in for (6) |
|
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| Blue dye of mine filling in nothing (6) |
|
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| Natural blue dye extracted from plants of the indigofera genus (6) |
|
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| Jones possibly getting 500 in blue (6) |
|
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| In archaeological excavation, nothing is violet (6) |
|
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| No, I dig it in order to find shade (6) |
|
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| A deep violet blue (6) |
|
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| I'd go in for blue dye (6) |
|
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| Purple-blue (6) |
|
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| Part of Roy G. Biv |
LA Times Daily |
03 May 2024 |
| I get the dog in - Blue, that is! |
|
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| Colour when one is caught in wrongdoing (6) |
|
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| Ancient dye, or the colour between blue and violet in the spectrum (6) |
|
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| I go in, joining the other 500, looking blue |
|
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| Anil |
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| Dark blue dye |
The Sun Two Speed |
29 Mar 2024 |
| One doing badly shows colour |
The Sun Two Speed |
29 Mar 2024 |
| A deep blue (6) |
|
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| Bluish dye |
Puzzler Backwords |
20 Mar 2024 |
| The one doing somersaults, in blue |
|
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| Blue hue |
Thomas Joseph |
06 Mar 2024 |
| Colour of the rainbow |
The Times Concise |
01 Mar 2024 |
| Dark purplish blue (6) |
Puzzler |
29 Feb 2024 |
| I go after headless hind to get shade of blue (6) |
|
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| Deep blue |
Eugene Sheffer |
20 Feb 2024 |
| Colour making trendy girl leave (6) |
|
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| The dye I'd go in for (6) |
|
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| Nation has no part in indignation over nothing but shade of blue (6) |
|
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| Deep blue colour (6) |
|
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| The one doing cartwheels, in blue (6) |
|
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| Sort of doing without one shade of colour (6) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
03 Feb 2024 |
| Dark blue colour I like among number (6) |
|
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| Blue, the dog, and I get in here (6) |
|
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| Bluish-violet colour (6) |
|
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| The neighbour of Violet Jones, the architect, collects diamonds |
|
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| Blue dye from woad |
Puzzler Backwords |
17 Jan 2024 |
| Spectrum hue |
LA Times Daily |
06 Jan 2024 |
| Colour used by Hindi governess (6) |
|
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| One doing away with colour (6) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
29 Dec 2023 |
| Colour adjacent to blue in the visible spectrum |
Mirror Quiz |
27 Dec 2023 |
| Colour between blue and violet |
|
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| Colour, like hint of orange, trendy initially (6) |
|
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| The I of ROYGBIV |
|
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| Dark blue dye |
The Times Concise |
01 Dec 2023 |
| Like ring topped with cool blue |
|
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| Purplish shade |
Universal |
17 Nov 2023 |
| Dark blue dye (6) |
Puzzler |
15 Nov 2023 |
| Purplish blue |
LA Times Daily |
12 Nov 2023 |
| Sort of doing without one shade of colour (6) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
11 Nov 2023 |
| The "I" in ROYGBIV |
Universal |
04 Nov 2023 |
| The "I" in ROYGBIV |
USA Today |
25 Oct 2023 |
| Deep violet-blue colour |
The Guardian Quick |
14 Oct 2023 |
| Rainbow color above violet |
Universal |
10 Oct 2023 |
| Rainbow hue |
LA Times Daily |
11 Aug 2023 |
| Colour of the rainbow |
The Guardian Quick |
02 Aug 2023 |
| Dye, one doing badly |
The Times Cryptic |
21 Jun 2023 |
| Dark blue colour |
The Guardian Speedy |
30 Apr 2023 |
| Color between blue and violet |
Universal |
12 Apr 2023 |
| Popular archaeological site has nothing in the shade |
The Guardian Quiptic |
10 Apr 2023 |
| Rainbow color whose name is derived from the country of its origin |
|
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| Colour between blue and violet on the visible spectrum |
The Guardian Weekend |
04 Mar 2023 |
| "Closer to Fine" duo __ Girls |
LA Times Daily |
24 Jan 2023 |
| Rainbow color |
Thomas Joseph |
24 Dec 2022 |
| Blue/violet colour |
The Telegraph Quick |
11 Dec 2022 |
| Deep blue |
Eugene Sheffer |
23 Nov 2022 |
| Rainbow color |
Thomas Joseph |
16 Nov 2022 |
| Rainbow color |
Thomas Joseph |
13 Oct 2022 |
| Dark blue dye |
The Times Concise |
01 Oct 2022 |
| The "I" in ROY G. BIV |
|
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| Blue shade |
Premier Sunday |
26 Jun 2022 |
| Rainbow color |
Thomas Joseph |
01 Jun 2022 |
| Ellington's 2 down when 15 across and rhapsodising without sharps in unorthodox manner. |
Irish Times Crosaire |
17 May 2022 |
| Dyestuff |
Canadiana |
16 May 2022 |
| Between blue and violet |
The Guardian Quick |
31 Mar 2022 |
| A deep dark blue colour |
Irish Times Simplex |
30 Mar 2022 |
| Rainbow color |
Thomas Joseph |
24 Mar 2022 |
| The "i" of Roy G. Biv |
New York Times |
07 Mar 2022 |
| Useful plant, one doing badly |
The Times Cryptic |
02 Mar 2022 |
| Deep dark blue |
Irish Times Simplex |
13 Jan 2022 |
| Sixth colour in a rainbow |
The Guardian Quick |
12 Jan 2022 |
| Color on South Carolina's state flag |
USA Today |
09 Jan 2022 |
| Rainbow colour |
The Times Concise |
30 Dec 2021 |
| Blue plant dye |
The Times Concise |
15 Nov 2021 |
| Color of the rainbow not in the Pride flag |
USA Today |
15 Oct 2021 |
| Dye-producing plant doing badly, I admitted |
The Times Cryptic |
14 Oct 2021 |
| Deep dark blue |
Irish Times Simplex |
22 Sep 2021 |
| Not out to get cutting remark for nothing out of the blue |
Irish Times Crosaire |
07 Sep 2021 |
| Jones the architect checking daughter's colour |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
30 Aug 2021 |
| Half of skin round jab filling with purple colour |
|
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| Part of Roy G. Biv |
New York Times |
30 Jul 2021 |
| Blue dye |
The Times Concise |
16 Jul 2021 |
| I do gin (anag) |
The Guardian Speedy |
04 Jul 2021 |
| 'Mood ___' (Duke Ellington classic) |
New York Times |
27 Jun 2021 |
| Violet-blue |
The Telegraph Quick |
11 Jun 2021 |
| Only color of the rainbow not seen on the L.G.B.T. pride flag |
New York Times |
30 May 2021 |
| Shade of blue or purple |
Newsday |
05 May 2021 |
| Dark blue shade |
USA Today |
04 Apr 2021 |
| Rainbow color |
Thomas Joseph |
01 Apr 2021 |
| Dark blue dye |
The Sun Two Speed |
11 Mar 2021 |
| One doing badly shows colour |
The Sun Two Speed |
11 Mar 2021 |
| Dye most of the subcontinent try |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
10 Mar 2021 |
| Shade during excavation nil |
|
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| Spectrum hue |
Wall Street Journal |
25 Feb 2021 |
| Deep blue |
New York Times |
30 Dec 2020 |
| Dye from one doing pants |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
24 Dec 2020 |
| Blue dye |
The Telegraph Quick |
14 Dec 2020 |
| Deep dark blue |
Irish Times Simplex |
14 Dec 2020 |
| One doing work out of the blue? |
Irish Times Crosaire |
21 Nov 2020 |
| Tone of twilight |
Newsday |
21 Nov 2020 |
| Dye for denim |
New York Times |
18 Nov 2020 |
| Blue hue |
Thomas Joseph |
18 Nov 2020 |
| Compiler doing restoration in blue |
|
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| Dye from Asian country detailed work |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
01 Oct 2020 |
| Dark blue dye |
The Telegraph Quick |
21 Sep 2020 |
| Dark blue dye |
The Times Concise |
26 Aug 2020 |
| One doing weaving with dye |
|
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| Richard's red gave green in this! |
|
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| One doing badly shows colour |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
09 May 2020 |
| Colour that's receding in sheepdog I'd nicknamed |
The Telegraph Toughie |
14 Apr 2020 |
| A blue, international doing badly |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
30 Mar 2020 |
| A shade 4, changing second name to Oscar |
|
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| At home, cultivate love for dye |
|
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| I like nothing about new source of dye |
|
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| One doing work for Violet |
Irish Times Crosaire |
09 Dec 2019 |
| Purplish blue |
The Washington Post |
23 Nov 2019 |
| Purplish blue |
LA Times Daily |
23 Nov 2019 |
| Violet-blue dye |
Irish Times Simplex |
22 Oct 2019 |
| Enjoying popularity, like old colour |
|
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| The colour of one doing wrong? |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
25 Sep 2019 |
| Mind endlessly to delve over colour |
|
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| India (Goa): wanting articles to supply bit of colour |
|
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| Shade on the visible spectrum |
New York Times |
22 Aug 2019 |
| Classical architect receives Dutch plant |
|
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| Rainbow color before violet |
Universal |
27 Jul 2019 |
| India (Goa): wanting articles to supply bit of colour |
|
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| Popular detective needing match for dye |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
05 Jun 2019 |
| To make Saxon blue dye, dissolve ____ in concentrated sulphuric acid |
The Times Specialist Sunday |
19 May 2019 |
| Colour in like circle |
The Sun Two Speed |
19 Apr 2019 |
| I of ROYGBIV |
The Telegraph Quick |
12 Apr 2019 |
| Violet-blue colour |
Irish Times Simplex |
08 Apr 2019 |
| Like ring topped with cool colour |
|
|
| Dark blue shade |
Universal |
02 Feb 2019 |
| Blue-violet |
The Telegraph Quick |
09 Jan 2019 |
| Rainbow color before violet |
|
|
| Shade on the visible spectrum |
|
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| Dark blue shade |
|
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| What "I" stands for in "Roy G. Biv" |
|
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| What "I" stands for in "VIBGYOR" |
|
|
| Plant yielding dye, imported initially, doing badly |
|
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| Deep blue |
Eugene Sheffer |
28 Sep 2018 |
| Violet's neighbour doing somersaults round island |
|
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| Plant yielding dye, imported initially, doing badly |
|
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| Trendy, like old colour |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
09 Jul 2018 |
| At home approve old colour |
The Telegraph Toughie |
26 Jun 2018 |
| At home like middle of doors to show colour |
|
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| One doing redevelopment for Violet |
Irish Times Crosaire |
29 Mar 2018 |
| At home, papers over crack and stain |
The Telegraph Toughie |
09 Mar 2018 |
| Violet dye |
The Telegraph Quick |
15 Feb 2018 |
| . Blue — doing miserably after impressive beginning |
|
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| Rainbow hue |
LA Times Daily |
06 Dec 2017 |
| Rainbow hue |
The Washington Post |
06 Dec 2017 |
| Colour is fashionable till over |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
05 Oct 2017 |
| Jones, perhaps, died entering deep blue |
The Telegraph Toughie |
15 Aug 2017 |
| Couples from India dislike golden colour |
|
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| Spectrum shade |
The Washington Post |
19 Jul 2017 |
| Spectrum shade |
LA Times Daily |
19 Jul 2017 |
| Trendy pad son leaves for introduction of Oxford blue |
|
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| Trendy pad son leaves for introduction of Oxford blue |
The Times Cryptic |
12 Jul 2017 |
| Jones the architect conceals source of dark colour |
|
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| Fashionable and fancy ring, dark blue |
|
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| In love with old natural dye |
|
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| The first person doing swirls in colour |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
31 May 2017 |
| Stain mum gets out of party frock, in the middle |
The Telegraph Toughie |
24 Feb 2017 |
| Rainbow hue |
|
|
| Spectrum shade |
|
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| Blue dye |
The Guardian Quick |
26 Nov 2016 |
| Blind I got partly to provide shade |
|
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| Blue diamonds one's kept in home are stolen? |
|
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| Blue diamonds one's kept in home are stolen? |
The Times Cryptic |
04 Oct 2016 |
| Spectrum color |
Wall Street Journal |
31 May 2016 |
| Deep violet-blue colour |
The Guardian Quick |
28 May 2016 |
| ___ Girls (singers featured in "Wordplay") |
USA Today |
13 May 2016 |
| Looking blue, I'd go in for treatment |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
18 Apr 2016 |
| Part of Roy G. Biv |
Jonesin |
12 Jan 2016 |
| ___ Girls (singers featured in "Wordplay") |
|
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| By spade there's old plant |
|
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| Blue shade |
Newsday |
09 Oct 2015 |
| First person is doing badly with Violet |
Irish Times Crosaire |
21 Sep 2015 |
| Fashionable to appreciate and love a shade... |
|
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| Blue plant dye |
The Times Concise |
07 Sep 2015 |
| One doing assembly in shade |
|
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| Rainbow color |
New York Times |
24 May 2015 |
| Shade of blue |
USA Today |
12 May 2015 |
| Duke Ellington's mood? |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
20 Apr 2015 |
| Color of Duke Ellington's "Mood" |
USA Today |
06 Apr 2015 |
| Film company's short: The Meaning of Green and Blue |
The Times Cryptic |
26 Mar 2015 |
| Spectrum hue |
New York Times |
04 Mar 2015 |
| Blue-violet colour |
Irish Times Simplex |
21 Feb 2015 |
| Colour architect Jones used with encrusted diamonds |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
20 Feb 2015 |
| Spectral colour |
The Telegraph Quick |
03 Feb 2015 |
| Spectral hue |
Premier Sunday |
01 Feb 2015 |
| Architect Jones pocketing penny for product of woad |
The Telegraph Toughie |
15 Jan 2015 |
| Shade of blue |
|
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| Spectral hue |
|
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| Spectrum hue |
|
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| Rainbow color |
|
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| Blue shade |
|
|
| Color of Duke Ellington's "Mood" |
|
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| Current avatar of god in shade of blue |
|
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| Violet almost lodging with love |
|
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| Sapphire relative |
|
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| Rainbow shade |
|
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| Shade of blue |
|
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| Part of a rainbow |
|
|
| ___ Girls (crossword-loving folk-rock duo) |
|
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| Prism bar? |
|
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| "Mood ___" (Ellington song) |
|
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| The "I" in ROYGBIV |
|
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| Spectrum color between blue and violet |
|
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| Spectrum color between blue and violet |
|
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| "Closer to Fine" band ___ Girls |
|
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| "Mood ___" (Ellington song) |
|
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| Rainbow color |
|
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| Spectrum color |
|
|
| Blue dye |
|
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| Roy G. Biv part |
|
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| Cyan + magenta |
|
|
| Spectrum color |
|
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| Blue dye |
|
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| Spectrum color |
|
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| Ellington's "Mood ___" |
|
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| Spectrum component |
|
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| Part of Roy G. Biv |
|
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| Shade of blue |
|
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| Part of Roy G. Biv |
|
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| ___ Girls ("Closer to Fine" duo) |
|
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| Mood color? |
|
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| Deep violet blue |
|
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| Deep violet |
|
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| Shade deeper than heliotrope |
|
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| Rainbow hue |
|
|
| The I of ROY G. BIV |
|
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| Rainbow color |
|
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| ___ Girls (singers featured in "Wordplay") |
|
|
| Color of the rainbow |
|
|
| Rainbow shade |
|
|
| Shade of purple |
|
|
| Color in an Ellington title |
|
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| Purple shade |
|
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| Ellington's "Mood __" |
|
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| Spectrum band |
|
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| Blue dye |
|
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| Part of Roy G Biv |
|
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| Deep blue |
|
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| Part of Roy G Biv |
|
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| Blue dye |
|
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| Spectrum member |
|
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| Duke Ellington's "Mood ___" |
|
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| Plum relative |
|
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| Musical mood? |
|
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| Rainbow color |
|
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| Rainbow color |
|
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| Dye source |
|
|
| Spectrum division |
|
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| El Salvador export |
|
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| Color in an Ellington title |
|
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| Ellington song mood |
|
|
| Color of Duke Ellington's "Mood" |
|
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| Deep blue |
|
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| ___ Girls ("Closer to Fine" singers) |
|
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| Part of ROY G. BIV |
|
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| Ellington song mood |
|
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| "Mood --" |
|
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| Blue |
|
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| Dye-producing plant doing badly, I admitted |
|
|
| Dye plant |
|
|
| "Mood ___": Ellington |
|
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| ____ Girls |
|
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| "Mood ___" (Ellington song) |
|
|
| Blue shade |
|
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| "Mood ___" (Sinatra song) |
|
|
| Deep blue |
|
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| Blue shade |
|
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| Dark dye |
|
|
| Musical mood? |
|
|
| Ellington's "Mood ___" |
|
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| Part of ROY G BIV |
|
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| Blue dye |
|
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| Shade of blue |
|
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| "Mood ___," 1931 song |
|
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| "Mood ___," Ellington hit |
|
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| Blue dyestuff |
|
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| Spectrum color |
|
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| Prismatic color |
|
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| "Mood ___" |
|
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| Mood shade |
|
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| Bluest of blue. |
|
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| Blue dyestuff. |
|
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| Dark grayish blue. |
|
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| Source of blue. |
|
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| ___ Girls |
|
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| Reddish-blue. |
|
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| Color |
|
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| Blue dye. |
|
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| "Mood" of an Ellington piece. |
|
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| A color of the rainbow. |
|
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