Colour drawn around a black mark (5) Crossword Clue

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RankAnswerLengthSourceDate
98% TAINT Colour drawn around a black mark (5) (5)
7% EBON Brownish-black colour, poetically (4) The Telegraph Cross Atlantic Oct 21, 2025
6% IMPRINT Pair with one herb around book-mark (7) (7) Puzzler Cryptic Nov 15, 2025
6% SCORCH Leave a black mark on, say (6) LA Times Daily Oct 18, 2025
6% ABSTAIN Duck out? A black mark (7) The Times Cryptic Oct 16, 2025
6% DYE Colourant (3) Puzzler Backwords Oct 5, 2025
6% SCAR Beetle lacking a black mark (4) (4) Puzzler Cryptic Oct 2, 2025
5% HUE Colour, shade (3) The Times Concise Dec 2, 2025
5% STET Editor's mark (4) Wall Street Journal Dec 2, 2025
5% SABLE Shade of black (5) Commuter Dec 2, 2025
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