| Loses color |
USA Today |
10 Nov 2025 |
| Betrays fear |
Newsday |
30 Oct 2025 |
| Loses color |
Commuter |
28 Oct 2025 |
| Loses color |
New York Times |
03 Sep 2025 |
| Goes ashen |
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| Blanches |
USA Today |
08 May 2025 |
| Loses color |
Eugene Sheffer |
16 Apr 2025 |
| Shows fright |
Thomas Joseph |
04 Apr 2025 |
| Looks a bit sick due to quiet drinks (5) |
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| Leaps around and loses colour (5) |
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| Turns sickly-looking in fencing (5) |
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| Changes color in fright |
New York Times |
07 Dec 2024 |
| Blanches at "soft drinks" (5) |
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| Reacts to a ghost, perhaps |
Wall Street Journal |
19 Oct 2024 |
| ___ in comparison to (is worse than) |
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| ___ in comparison (isn't nearly as good) |
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| Turns white |
Commuter |
30 Aug 2024 |
| Loses color |
USA Today |
21 Aug 2024 |
| Loses its appeal (5) |
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| Becomes white |
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| Is not so important, comparatively speaking |
New York Times |
01 Mar 2024 |
| Loses color |
New York Times |
10 Feb 2024 |
| Lightens up? |
New York Times |
26 Dec 2023 |
| Blanches |
New York Times |
08 Oct 2023 |
| Lightens in color |
Newsday |
16 Aug 2023 |
| Blanches |
LA Times Daily |
30 Jul 2023 |
| Doesn't measure up, so to speak |
New York Times |
11 Jul 2023 |
| Loses color |
Newsday |
23 May 2023 |
| Is less serious in comparison |
Universal |
22 Dec 2022 |
| Loses color |
Thomas Joseph |
06 Dec 2022 |
| Shows fright |
USA Today |
05 Oct 2022 |
| Loses color |
Eugene Sheffer |
13 Sep 2022 |
| Loses color |
Thomas Joseph |
06 Jun 2022 |
| Loses color |
LA Times Daily |
23 Dec 2021 |
| Loses color |
Thomas Joseph |
25 Oct 2021 |
| Isn't worthy in comparison |
Universal |
09 Oct 2021 |
| Doesn't measure up |
LA Times Daily |
15 Sep 2021 |
| Doesn't measure up |
The Washington Post |
15 Sep 2021 |
| Goes white from fright |
LA Times Daily |
30 Aug 2021 |
| Goes white from fright |
The Washington Post |
30 Aug 2021 |
| Becomes less important by comparison |
New York Times |
31 Mar 2021 |
| Loses color |
Universal |
22 Mar 2021 |
| Exhibits fright, perhaps |
USA Today |
27 Dec 2020 |
| Is drained of color |
Newsday |
24 Aug 2020 |
| Loses color |
Thomas Joseph |
03 Feb 2020 |
| Loses color |
Wall Street Journal |
01 Feb 2020 |
| Turns white |
Universal |
27 Nov 2019 |
| Shows fright |
Thomas Joseph |
23 Nov 2019 |
| Hardly measures up |
New York Times |
22 Nov 2019 |
| Hardly measures up |
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| Grows dim |
Thomas Joseph |
21 Sep 2019 |
| Reacts to a spirit |
Wall Street Journal |
28 Aug 2019 |
| Doesn't measure up |
New York Times |
22 Feb 2019 |
| Loses color |
|
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| Doesn't measure up |
|
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| Reacts to a spirit |
|
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| ___ in comparison |
Universal |
06 Nov 2018 |
| Shows fright |
USA Today |
15 Aug 2018 |
| Becomes ashen |
The Washington Post Sunday |
22 Jul 2018 |
| Shows fear, perhaps |
USA Today |
16 Jun 2018 |
| Gets whiter |
New York Times |
07 May 2018 |
| Loses ruddiness |
Universal |
31 Mar 2018 |
| Gets whiter |
|
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| ___ in comparison |
|
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| Shows fright |
|
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| Shows fear, perhaps |
|
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| Loses ruddiness |
|
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| Looks inferior by comparison |
The Chronicle of Higher Education |
23 Jun 2017 |
| Loses color |
New York Times |
17 Apr 2017 |
| Fence pickets |
USA Today |
31 Jan 2017 |
| Looks inferior by comparison |
|
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| Loses color |
|
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| Fence pickets |
|
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| Grows wan |
The Washington Post |
30 Aug 2016 |
| Loses color |
Eugene Sheffer |
14 Mar 2016 |
| Compares poorly |
LA Times Daily |
13 Mar 2016 |
| Lightens in color |
Newsday |
19 Jan 2016 |
| Doesn't measure up |
LA Times Daily |
17 Oct 2015 |
| Loses colour seeing father in front of the French ... |
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| Loses color |
Newsday |
14 Jul 2015 |
| Blanches |
Canadiana |
29 Jun 2015 |
| Loses color |
|
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| Loses color |
|
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| Doesn't measure up |
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| Hardly measures up in comparison |
|
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| Looks inferior, comparatively |
|
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| Turns whitish |
|
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| Looks inferior by comparison |
|
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| Displays fear, maybe |
|
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| Reacts to seeing a ghost, maybe |
|
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| Etiolates |
|
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| Looks bad, comparatively |
|
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| Loses color |
|
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| Loses ruddiness |
|
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| Gets lighter |
|
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| Turns chalky |
|
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| Looks bad, comparatively |
|
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| Looks bad, comparatively |
|
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| Shows fear, maybe |
|
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| Loses ruddiness |
|
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| Fence pickets |
|
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| Loses one's tan |
|
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| Reacts to bad news, in a way |
|
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| Compares unfavorably |
|
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| Is visibly frightened |
|
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| Loses one's tan |
|
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| Looks inferior |
|
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| Fence pickets |
|
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| Exhibits terror |
|
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| Pickets outside a house? |
|
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| Reacts to a ghost, maybe |
|
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| Shows fear |
|
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| Blanches |
|
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| Looks inferior by comparison |
|
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| Pickets outside a house |
|
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| Goes white |
|
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| Turns white |
|
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| Fence pickets |
|
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| Reacts to bad news, maybe |
|
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| Reacts to bad news, maybe |
|
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| Loses color |
|
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| Sees a ghost, maybe |
|
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| Compares unfavorably |
|
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| Turns white |
|
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| Etiolates |
|
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| Loses color |
|
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| Loses color |
|
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| Fence pickets |
|
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| Loses color |
|
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| Turns ashen |
|
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| Shows fright |
|
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| Looks fearful |
|
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| Looks fearful |
|
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| Pickets |
|
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| Loses one's tan |
|
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| Blanches |
|
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| Looks frightened, in a way |
|
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| Turns white |
|
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| Shows shock |
|
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| Turns white with fear |
|
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| Loses luster |
|
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| More than flinches |
|
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| Etiolates |
|
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| Turns a whiter shade |
|
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| Reacts to a fright |
|
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| Reacts to a scare, perhaps |
|
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| Looks inferior by comparison |
|
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| Goes ghostly |
|
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| Compares unfavorably |
|
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| Blanches |
|
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| Turns white |
|
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| Lightens up? |
|
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| Pickets |
|
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| Fence pickets |
|
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| Becomes wan |
|
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| Anagram for 1 Across |
|
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| Stakes |
|
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| Fences in |
|
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| Gets wan |
|
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| Limits |
|
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| Dims |
|
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| Shows fear |
|
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| Fence posts |
|
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| Pickets. |
|
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| Fence parts. |
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| Becomes dim. |
|
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| Fence pickets. |
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| Pointed stakes. |
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| Fence posts. |
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| Loses color. |
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| Becomes lighter. |
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| Blanches. |
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| Stakes. |
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