Clues for the word "GRAY"
We've had 175 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 260 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New York Times crossword on January 23, 2026.
Definition of gray
- superl. - White mixed with black, as the color of pepper and salt, or of ashes, or of hair whitened by age; sometimes, a dark mixed color; as, the soft gray eye of a dove.
- superl. - Gray-haired; gray-headed; of a gray color; hoary.
- superl. - Old; mature; as, gray experience. Ames.
- n. - A gray color; any mixture of white and black; also, a neutral or whitish tint.
- n. - An animal or thing of gray color, as a horse, a badger, or a kind of salmon.
Referring Clues
- Gloomy
- Overcast
- See 107-Across
- Lee side?
- Elisha, who was beaten out by Bell for the telephone patent
- Civil War side, with "the"
- Like many a winter sky
- "Arrangement in ___ and Black" (portrait of Whistler's mother)
- Black and white?
- Looking like rain
- Battleship shade
- Confederate uniform color
- Pre-dye hair shade, often
- Lee's uniform color
- Battleship color
- South side?
- With 8-Down, source of an ethical dilemma
- Confederate color
- Civil War soldier
- Like a rainy day
- It's often touched up
- Like the old mare
- Oscar Wilde's Dorian
- Like overcast weather
- Like a foreboding sky
- "The Picture of Dorian ___"
- "Little Orphan Annie" cartoonist Harold
- Pre-dye shade, perhaps
- Civil War color
- Age, perhaps
- Showing signs of age, perhaps
- Henry who wrote a noted anatomy text
- Cloudy
- Ambiguous, idiomatically
- "Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise" poet
- Johnny Reb's color
- Anatomist Henry
- Like rainy skies
- Color for a wolf or whale
- "The Picture of Dorian ___"
- Civil War side (with "the")
- Neither black nor white
- Color associated with aging
- Type of matter
- Sort of squirrel
- ___ matter
- Neutral color
- Blue opponent
- Not clear-cut
- Confederacy color
- Ashen
- Civil War side (with "the")
- ___ matter
- Civil War side
- Like catbirds and koalas
- Some people are dying to hide it
- Parliamentarian Herb, for one
- ____ Lake, Northwest Territories
- Civil war side
- Dingy color
- Blue's opponent
- Black plus white
- Black and white
- Slate-colored
- Showing signs of aging
- CSA uniform color
- Dingy
- Anatomy man
- Vague
- CSA shade
- Showing signs of age
- Needing Grecian Formula
- Confederate soldiers
- CSA uniforms
- Confederate uniforms
- Rebel color
- Silver-haired
- "Battleship" shade
- Memorable anatomist
- Black and white together
- "Battleship" color
- Koala's color
- Pre-dyed hair color, often
- Type of squirrel
- Confederate wear
- Noted anatomist
- Elephant color
- Ill-defined area's color
- He of the aging portrait
- R. ____ (1945 BC born VC winner)
- Horse color
- Hair color before a dye job, perhaps
- Color of overcast skies
- Confederate soldier's color
- Gloomy, weatherwise
- Like the old mare that "ain't what she used to be"
- "Pale ___ for Guilt"
- Just for Men target
- Like gloomy skies
- Oft-covered hair color
- Not black or white
- Light black
- Aptly named Civil War general Henry
- Erin of "Buck Rogers"
- Neither white nor black
- Neutral hue
- Like slate
- Between white and black
- Color of many squirrels
- It's between black and white
- A whiter shade of black
- Linda of "Dallas"
- Neutral shade
- Actress Erin
- Bandleader Glen
- *English surgeon Henry
- Squirrel color
- Herb ______ (Deputy PM from 1997 to 2000)
- Dreary
- Civil War uniform color
- Just For Men covers it
- Ash, e.g.
- Equine hue
- Dull color
- Slaty color
- Jodie Foster's last name on "Paper Moon"
- Amy's maiden name on "Judging Amy"
- Erin ___ of TV
- Combination of white and black
- Color between white and black
- Color of overcast weather
- Color between black and white
- #696969, in hexadecimal color code
- Market or matter starter
- "White Ladder" David
- "Sail Away" David
- Odd characters in the land of Schiller, the elegist?
- Like Confederate uniforms
- Suggesting snow, perhaps
- See 5 down
- Slate color
- Ominous, weatherwise
- Elegy writer in odd parts of Germany
- 63-Down uniform color
- Color of an overcast sky
- "Dorian ___"
- A Civil War shade
- Uncommon eye color
- Dreary color
- Destroyer hue
- That elegiac poet
- Koala color
- Overcast sky's color
- Cloudy sky color
- Ethically uncertain
- Like an overcast sky
- With 32-Down, ambiguity ... or a hint to this puzzle's theme
- Color of a seal's skin, perhaps
- ___ area (uncertainty)
- Singer Macy
- Like a cloudy day
- Anatomy book author Henry
- Actor Matthew ___ Gubler
- Age, in a way
- Rainy day hue
- Looking like rain, say
- Popular color for sweatpants
- Dolphin's color
- Poet with his own Inn in London?
- Color of some whales and rhinos
- Like Southern California skies during June Gloom
- Mixture of black and white
- Murky
- Like overcast skies
- What some may be dyeing to conceal?
Last Seen In
- New York Times - January 23, 2026
- Mirror Daily - January 13, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - October 22, 2025
- Mirror Daily - October 16, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - July 18, 2025
- Mirror Daily - May 21, 2025
- LA Times - April 20, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - April 01, 2025
- USA Today - January 12, 2025
- LA Times - December 20, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - November 04, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - October 05, 2024
- Family Time - September 09, 2024
- Mirror Daily - August 30, 2024
- LA Times - July 18, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - July 15, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - June 17, 2024
- Mirror Daily - May 31, 2024
- USA Today - April 04, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 28, 2024
- USA Today - February 01, 2024
- Mirror Daily - December 10, 2023
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - December 04, 2023
- Mirror Daily - September 05, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - March 01, 2023
- USA Today - January 02, 2023
- LA Times - December 24, 2022
- USA Today - December 10, 2022
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - November 29, 2022
- Penny Dell Daily - November 20, 2022
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