The Clue
Shade of red (5 letter answer)
The Answer
BLOOD
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Notes
The answer BLOOD is seen occasionally, appearing about once every 700 puzzles.
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Definition
BLOOD as a noun:
1. the fluid (red in vertebrates) that is pumped by the heart; "blood carries oxygen and nutrients to the tissues and carries waste products away"; "the ancients believed that blood was the seat of the emotions"
2. (lineage, line, line of descent, descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stock) = the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors"
3. temperament or disposition; "a person of hot blood"
4. (rake, rakehell, profligate, rip, blood, roue) = a dissolute man in fashionable society
5. people viewed as members of a group; "we need more young blood in this organization"
BLOOD as a verb:
1. smear with blood, as in a hunting initiation rite, where the face of a person is smeared with the blood of the kill