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The Clue

Pale as a poltergeist (5 letter answer)

The Answer

ASHEN

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Notes

The answer ASHEN is seen frequently, appearing about once every 80 puzzles.

Related Clues

Blanched
Bloodless
Cadaverous
Cinereous
Ghastly
Ghostlike
Gray
Grayish
Pale
Pallid
Pasty
Whitish
Beyond the pale?
Chalk-colored
Drained of color
Far from florid
Pale, as a face
Pale-faced
Pale with fright
Pasty-faced
Visibly frightened
White-faced
White with fright
White as a sheet
Hardly hale-looking
Like the skies in "Ulalume"

Definition

ASHEN as an adjective:

1. (ashen, blanched, bloodless, livid, white) = anemic looking from illness or emotion; "a face turned ashen"; "the invalid's blanched cheeks"; "tried to speak with bloodless lips"; "a face livid with shock"; "lips...livid with the hue of death"- Mary W. Shelley; "lips white with terror"; "a face white with rage"
2. made of wood of the ash tree