The Clue
Sickly white (5 letter answer)
The Answer
PASTY
Tags
Notes
The answer PASTY is seen occasionally, appearing about once every 750 puzzles.
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Definition
PASTY as a noun:
1. small meat pie or turnover
2. (usually used in the plural) one of a pair of adhesive patches worn to cover the nipples of exotic dancers and striptease performers
PASTY as an adjective:
1. (pasty, pastelike) = resembling paste in color; pallid; "he looked pasty and red-eyed"; "a complexion that had been pastelike was now chalky white"
2. (gluey, glutinous, gummy, mucilaginous, pasty, sticky, viscid, viscous) = having the sticky properties of an adhesive