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The Clue

Sickly white (5 letter answer)

The Answer

PASTY

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Notes

The answer PASTY is seen occasionally, appearing about once every 750 puzzles.

Related Clues

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Londoner's meat pie

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