Clues for the word "TAN"
We've had 697 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 1657 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Easy crossword on February 19, 2026.
Definition of tan
- n. - See Picul.
- n. - The bark of the oak, and some other trees, bruised and broken by a mill, for tanning hides; -- so called both before and after it has been used. Called also tan bark.
- n. - A yellowish-brown color, like that of tan.
- n. - A brown color imparted to the skin by exposure to the sun; as, hands covered with tan.
- a. - Of the color of tan; yellowish-brown.
- n. - To convert (the skin of an animal) into leather, as by usual process of steeping it in an infusion of oak or some other bark, whereby it is impregnated with tannin, or tannic acid (which exists in several species of bark), and is thus rendered firm, durable, and in some degree impervious to water.
- n. - To make brown; to imbrown, as by exposure to the rays of the sun; as, to tan the skin.
- v. i. - To get or become tanned.
Referring Clues
- "The Hundred Secret Senses" author
- Larrup
- Whup
- "The Joy Luck Club" author
- Bronzy
- Lick
- Give a licking
- Sun shade
- Beachgoer's goal
- Shoe color
- Whip but good
- Trig. ratio
- Summer shade
- Booth offering, perhaps
- Browning work?
- Like lifeguards
- Turn into leather
- Almond
- Fancy calculator button
- Buff
- Go for the bronze?
- Thrash
- Get darker
- Paddle
- Acquisition for some vacationers
- Switch
- Beach bum's shade
- Whip
- Use a booth, perhaps
- Treat hide
- Brown on the beach
- Souvenir from Aruba?
- Camelhair color
- Color of sand
- Color on the beach
- Let have it
- Brownish
- Light brown
- Result of some bathing
- Something some people return from vacation with
- It fades in the fall
- Beachgoer's shade
- Crayola shade
- Spank but good
- Spank
- Sunbather's shade
- Biscuit or almond
- Like camel's hair
- Something that may be brought back from the beach
- Salon acquisition
- Beach shade
- Sunbathe
- Bronze
- Bronzed, at the beach
- A bather may want one
- Like many lifeguards
- Get some sun
- Beach color
- Sun shade?
- Sun worshiper's goal
- Black and ___ (breed of dog)
- Beachgoer's acquisition
- Black and ___ (kind of coonhound)
- Sunbather's goal
- Shade for a lifeguard?
- "The Kitchen God's Wife" author
- Typical dachshund color
- Beachcomber's shade
- Beach acquisition
- Beachgoers often get one
- Sunbather's acquistion
- Like the girl from Ipanema
- Catch some rays
- Change on the beach?
- Summer coat?
- Sun worshiper's shade
- Convert into leather
- Healthy glow
- Bikini line surrounder
- Salon color
- Make leather
- Whip soundly
- Shade in the summer
- Sunbathing result
- Color at the beach
- Certain booth occupant's goal
- Soak up the sun
- Camel's color
- Vacation souvenir
- Soak up some rays
- Beach bum's hue
- Shade of summer
- Crayola color
- Trench coat color
- Almost burn
- Result of exposing oneself at the beach?
- What you might get in a booth
- Lash
- Color of coffee ice cream
- Discontinued color of M&M's
- Author of "Saving Fish From Drowning"
- 1, for 45°: Abbr.
- You might get one in a booth
- Bronzed
- Camel
- Leather color
- Color of a camel
- Black's partner
- Color of café au lait
- See 52-Across
- Ecru
- Caramel
- Former color of M&M's
- Any of seven Chinese puzzle pieces that can form a square
- "Saving Fish From Drowning" novelist Amy
- Calculator button
- Ecru relative
- One of two Crayola colors with the shortest name
- Salon offering
- Earth tone
- Beach souvenir
- Beachcomber's acquisition
- Sand relative
- It usually fades in fall
- Convert to leather
- Basker's acquisition
- Make into leather
- Vacation souvenir that doesn't last
- Change colors, in a way
- Sunshine product
- Salongoer's goal, maybe
- Convert to leather, as hide
- Scientific-calculator key
- Brown shade
- Shade from the sun
- Summer acquisition
- "The Opposite of Fate" author
- "The Bonesetter's Daughter" author
- Trig function
- "The Kitchen God's Wife" author
- Vacation "souvenir"
- Browning product
- "The Joy Luck Club" author
- Yellowish brown
- Work with leather
- Treat hides
- Summertime quest
- Bronze relative
- Caramel-colored
- Neutral color
- Discontinued M&M's color
- Summer shade?
- Absorb the sun
- Neutral tone
- Acquire a bronze tone
- Shade from the sun?
- Process leather
- Use a UV lamp
- Treat leather
- "The Hundred Secret Senses" author
- Work on hides
- Basker's pride
- Catch rays
- Whip a hide, e.g.
- Sunbather's desire
- Convert hide into leather
- Get what you bask for?
- What some spray-ons replicate
- Shade for a surfer
- Camel's hair color
- It's exactly what you basked for
- Hot weather acquisition
- Something picked up at the beach
- Give a whuppin'
- It may be acquired in a booth
- The girl from Ipanema had one
- Basker's hue
- Sunlamp result
- Prepare a hide
- Color with lines?
- Light earth tone
- Hamilton's hue
- Like lifeguards, probably
- Spray-on salon treatment
- Cure rawhide
- You might get one at the pool
- Shade of brown
- Beach goal
- Shade of summer?
- Hue that's neutral
- Lie on the beach
- Process hide
- Chestnut
- It's often picked up at the beach
- Sunbather's acquisition
- Just back from the beach, obviously
- Shoe color, often
- Result of some time in a bed?
- Absorb sunlight
- Get bronze
- Shade on a beach
- Hazel kin
- Beach lover's goal
- Souvenir from a tropical vacation?
- Many a sunbather's goal
- George Hamilton's trademark
- It may be acquired on the beach
- Brown from the beach
- Convert to leather, as a hide
- Summer goal, maybe
- Noted John Boehner feature
- Booth takeaway
- Bronzed from the beach
- Chinese-American novelist
- Neutral shade
- Black and ___: two-beer drink
- ___ line
- Like most lifeguards
- Go for the bronze
- Suede shade
- Fall fader
- Dark from the sun
- Get what you bask for
- Author Amy
- "The Opposite of Fate" author
- "The Bonesetter's Daughter" author
- Vacation "souvenir"
- Hazel's cousin
- Black and ___: two-beer drink
- Color close to beige
- Shoe shade
- Farmer's ___
- Sit in a salon, say
- Emulate the Kardashians
- Beach hue
- Dachshund color
- Many people get one in the summer (and so do this puzzle's theme entries)
- Go to the salon, perhaps
- Avoid burning, perhaps
- Trousers color
- Trousers color
- John Boehner trademark
- Defeat decisively
- Sun bather's quest
- Take rays
- Amy who wrote "The Joy Luck Club"
- It's hard to get if you're fair
- Brown in the sun
- You might return from the beach with one
- "Baywatch" shade
- Like sandpaper, typically
- Beach colour
- Buff-colored
- Almond-colored
- Sunny day acquisition
- Process, as leather
- Hosiery color
- Leather shade
- Sandy color
- Beige
- Shoe hue
- Brown hue
- Brown tint
- Do leather work
- Work leather
- Writer Amy
- Leather hue
- Brownish shade
- Hosiery shade
- Work hides
- Earth color
- Former M&M's color
- 'The Joy Luck Club' author
- Darker than beige
- Erstwhile M&M's hue
- Prepare leather
- Pantyhose shade
- The T in GTL, on "Jersey Shore"
- Copper-hued
- Khaki
- Bronze-hued
- Almond-hued
- Coppery
- Capture the bronze?
- Enjoy a salon, maybe
- Basking result
- Hawaiian souvenir?
- Basking objective
- Lie out in the sun
- Erstwhile M&Ms color
- Lay out in the sun
- Handbag hue
- Sin/cos
- Camel- or caramel-colored
- Vacation indication, perhaps
- Vacation acquisition, maybe
- Sunbather's souvenir
- Basking on the beach result
- Beach souvenir?
- Treat, as leather
- Soak up some sun
- Khaki shade
- Hyperbolic function
- Sun-kissed
- Shade of suede
- See 34-Down
- Refine leather
- Black and ___ coonhound
- Khakilike
- Give a good whippin'
- Camel or caramel color
- Summer hue
- Brown in a bed
- Goal of a 17-Across
- Sun
- Darken in a salon
- Basking goal
- Former M&Ms color
- Certain parlor's offering
- Brown
- Zonker's is famous, in "Doonesbury"
- Shade at the beach
- One of Crayola's standard colors
- Khakilike color
- Salon goal, sometimes
- With 69-Across, beach markings ... 14 of which are hidden vertically and horizontally elsewhere in this puzzle
- Treat, as a hide
- Certain shoe shade
- Shade that fades
- A spray might be used for one
- John Boehner feature
- Summer "souvenir"
- Geometry shortening
- Many a beachgoer's hope
- Appearance after getting out of a bed?
- Booth browning
- "Baywatch" complexion?
- Just bask for it
- Bronze shade
- Souvenir of Maui, maybe
- Darken in the sun
- Lifeguard's shade, often
- M&M color replaced by blue
- Beachgoer's quest
- Shade from the sun that's inserted in this puzzle's theme answers
- Like one who spent a lot of time in bed?
- Like 3-Down
- Lick, in a way
- Sunbather's objective
- "A ___ and Sandy Silence"
- Situation after a sunburn
- Darken at the beach
- Souvenir from the beach?
- It's acquired on the beach
- Sun-bronzed
- Basker's reward
- Fawn or camel
- Riviera shade
- It may be obtained in a bed
- Army Rangers beret color
- Caribbean souvenir
- Beach perk
- Out-lying result?
- Author of "The Bonesetter's Daughter"
- Work with hides
- Get darker, in a way
- Basker's desire
- See 29-Down
- Light brown shade
- Hosiery hue
- On another cruise, peter sagal said passengers complained about not being able to get an impressive ___ on a cruise to alaska
- Ecru or fawn
- Coppertone user's goal
- Thing acquired on a beach
- Tend to hide?
- Light shade ... or avoid the shade?
- Cure hide
- Color similar to Crayola's Tumbleweed
- It may be picked up at the beach
- Camel's kin
- Thing acquired by many beachgoers
- Basker's quest
- Browning achievement?
- Earth shade
- Like coppertone kids
- Thing picked up at the beach
- Earthy color
- Thing sought after on the beach
- Basking hue
- Brownish hue
- Result of basking
- Give a lickin'
- Darken, in a way
- Beagle shade
- Beach or salon acquisition
- Bronze in the sun
- Color similar to camel
- Change one's tone?
- Bronze-ish
- Shade provided by the sun?
- Onetime M&M's color
- Pamela Anderson had one on "Baywatch"
- Something that might be picked up at the beach
- Like much sandpaper
- Camel color
- Vacationer's shade, perhaps
- Shade similar to ecru
- Sand shade
- Pongee color
- Color similar to khaki
- Beige's kin
- Bake in the sun
- Hazel cousin
- Light brown color
- Give a whupping
- Bask
- Get brown
- Get sun
- Cure leather
- Cure hides
- Prepare hide
- Poolside pursuit
- Get sunburned
- Get darker on the beach
- Get darker in the sun
- Beige color
- Sunburn color?
- Color between brown and beige
- What you'll get lying in the sun
- Bask in the sun
- Why some people lie on the beach
- Get darker by lying in the sun
- Something acquired from lying on the beach
- Lay in the sun on the beach
- Bake in the sun and get a ___
- Grab some rays
- You get it at the beach or in a booth
- Something to get in a bed
- Bronzed by the sun
- It may be replicated by a spray
- Crayon hue
- Skip the bronzer
- Get a glow
- Catch some rays on the beach
- Something acquired at the beach or in a booth
- M&M hue
- Drab crayon hue
- Get brown on a beach
- Brown with rays
- Bronze on the beach
- Become bronzed?
- See 15-Across
- Camel tone
- Get darker from the sun
- Old M&M hue
- Gather sun
- Amy the writer
- "The Kitchen God's Wife" author Amy
- Kin of ecru
- Stereophonics "T-Shirt Sun ___"
- Gotten on beach post-tour
- "Like Nashville with a ___" Shawn Mullins lyric
- The Clash "Atom ___"
- Acquired during downtime
- Might get a spray-on one for shoot
- Das Racist "All ___ Everything"
- Grabbed post-tour, on beach
- Cheesy agent might have spray-on one
- Like star on beach, post-tour
- Dylan gets a sunshine one in "Huck's Tune"
- Beat in an instant!
- Beat Nathaniel up!
- Instant healthy looking colour?
- Nathaniel turns up with a healthy look
- Inconstant colour?
- Treat hide by beating?
- Ortanique colour?
- Colour of a sheet anchor
- Brown gives thanks to the new leader
- Not all castanets are brown
- Colour instantaneously duplicated?
- Sunburn
- Convert hide to leather
- Shade of many shoes
- Camel's cousin
- Fawn, e.g.
- Crayon color
- Instant sunburn!
- Almond or caramel
- A colour of some importance
- Skin hue
- Novelist Amy
- You can get one from a bottle or a booth
- Vacation acquisition
- Color of khakis
- Bask at the beach
- Saving Fish From Drowning author
- Spray ___ (product that can make you look like you've been to the beach)
- Shade similar to khaki
- Brown in sun
- Brown colour
- Colour and flavour, not good
- Sun browning
- Brown in an instant
- Fake ___
- Summer coat?
- "The Joy Luck Club" novelist
- Shade darker than beige
- Author Amy who wrote "The Joy Luck Club"
- What a Hawaii vacationer may come home with
- Surfer's shade?
- Brown ant maybe
- Shade near bronze
- Doberman hue
- Get bronzed
- Salon bed acquisition
- Summer vacation "souvenir"
- Summer skin shade
- Belt color
- Khaki kin
- Yellowish-brown colour
- Beachgoer's souvenir
- Result of sunning
- The 'beat' of a giant heart!
- Khaki's cousin
- Shade close to chestnut
- Decorator's neutral shade
- Nudist's hue
- What a booth provides in winter
- Earthy shade
- Color akin to almond
- Something acquired at the beach
- Neutral hue
- Black and ___
- Summer color
- Get bronzed skin
- Lie in the sun purposefully
- Sunning result
- Basking result, for some
- Beach bum's acquisition
- Acquired shade?
- Beachgoer's color
- Beat, but less than instantly
- Color of autumn leaves
- "Joy Luck Club" author Amy
- Soak up rays
- Shade from a salon
- Camel or fawn
- Almond color
- Shade of many cookies
- Lying in the sun result
- A healthy colour in an instant
- Booth or beach acquisition
- Stocking color
- Hamilton's color?
- Coffee ice cream color
- Darken under the sun
- Browning result
- The brownish colour of an ortanique
- What you may get without a 45-Down
- Sun-lover's hue
- Color akin to khaki
- Basker's color
- Bed acquisition
- Instant bronzing effect?
- The tawny parts are brown
- "The Joy Luck Club" author Amy
- Result of some bed times
- Sun worshipper's shade
- Brownish color
- Sun-led darkening
- Color akin to butterscotch
- Writer Amy ___
- Almond’s kin
- Common sandpaper shade
- Black and ___ (cocktail)
- “The Hundred Secret Senses” author Amy
- Hollywood hue
- Camel hair color
- Beat or flog
- Color like khaki
- Summer tone
- Author Amy ___
- Beach boy's color?
- Cure into leather
- Instant healthy-looking colour?
- You basked for it
- Pale color, ironically
- Color similar to beige
- Brown, going dancing?
- Fawn’s kin
- Fashion expert France
- Beach benefit
- Coffee yogurt color
- “The Valley of Amazement” writer Amy
- Shade from sunlight?
- It may be fake
- Shade close to khaki
- Darkener of skin
- Acquire bronzed skin
- Lifeguard's shade, perhaps?
- Result of lying out in the sun
- Color akin to beige
- Pale shade of brown
- Chinos color
- Souvenir from the beach?
- Instant colour?
- Colour of titanium?
- Brown outdoors?
- A Crayola color
- Darken in summer
- Light brown hue
- Color of peanuts
- Shade of khakis
- Beach tone
- Do something to hide?
- Instant bronzing?
- Cousin of ocher
- Color of the U.S. Army Rangers beret
- Lion-colored
- Color similar to almond
- Khaki color
- Lie in the sun
- "Queer Eye" fashion expert ___ France
- Neutral slacks shade
- Color of camels' hair
- Former M&M color
- Shaded from the sun
- Summer skin hue
- France of "Queer Eye"
- Go brown
- Crayola color for a beach day?
- Seek caramel skin
- Shade on the beach
- Pale brown
- Beige cousin
- Summer color?
- Inconstant colour?
- Like beach volleyball players
- Sun shade?
- Treat hide by beating?
- Sun-kissed, say
- Go for bronze?
- Author of "The Kitchen God's Wife" (1991)
- Sunbathing goal
- Sandy shade
- "The Kitchen God's Wife" novelist, 1991
- Pale brown shade
- Ortanique colour?
- Shade akin to camel
- Button on a scientific calculator
- Turn brown
- Basker's goal
- It may be obtained from lying on the beach
- Pale brown color
- Color that's like beige but warmer
- Get color at the beach
- Ecru kin
- Become bronzed?
- Camel relative
- "Queer Eye" fashion expert France
- Thing acquired from the sun, sometimes
- Amy who wrote "The Kitchen God's Wife"
- Beat Nathaniel up?
- Colour of a sheet anchor?
- Black and ___ (layered beer cocktail)
- Colour instantaneously duplicated?
- Absorb the sun on the beach
- Camel kin
- Color akin to camel
- Buff relative
- Thing gotten before sunburn
- Beachgoer's goal, maybe
- Camel or caramel hue
- Color similar to hazelnut
- Beige kin
- Get bronze at the beach?
- Not quite burnt, say
- Yellowish-brown color
- Lay out on a beach
- Beach-acquired bronzing
- Like palomino horses
- Get a wee bit sunburned
- Brownish colour of an ortanique
- Sun-browned
- Goal for some sunbathers
- Seaside shade
- M&M color replaced in 1995
- Beat a boy up!
- Browned by the sun
- Beach vacation souvenir
- M&M color replaced by blue in 1995
- Something to pick up at a beach?
- Color akin to caramel
- M&M's color replaced by blue in 1995
- Caribbean vacation souvenir?
- Earn a bronze?
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Easy - February 19, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - February 13, 2026
- New York Times - February 06, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 02, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - January 26, 2026
- Mirror Daily - January 23, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - January 20, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - January 14, 2026
- Daily Cryptic - January 11, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - January 08, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - January 07, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - January 02, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - December 26, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - December 17, 2025
- Mirror Daily - December 17, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - December 15, 2025
- LA Times - November 26, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - November 22, 2025
- Daily American - November 17, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - November 14, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - November 12, 2025
- New York Times - November 06, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - November 01, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 31, 2025
- LA Times - October 26, 2025
- Mirror Daily - October 24, 2025
- LA Times - October 13, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - October 09, 2025
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