Shade in the desert Crossword Clue

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Shade in the desert Crossword Answer

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(noun)
1. a moderate yellow-orange to orange color
2. any of various earths containing silica and alumina and ferric oxide; used as a pigment
(adjective)
1. of a moderate orange-yellow color

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

DESERT (verb)
1. desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army
2. leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch
DESERT (noun)
1. arid land with little or no vegetation
2. (usually plural) a person’s deservingness of or entitlement to reward or punishment
SHADE (noun)
1. a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color
2. a protective ornamental covering for a lamp, used to screen a light bulb from direct view
SHADE (verb)
1. represent the effect of shade or shadow on
2. cast a shadow over

Hint 3: Anagram

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More LA Times Crossword (8/22/2025) Answers

Across

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5. Is into

9. Espresso or cappuccino, to Italians

14. King's address

15. Lot of land

16. Group calling strikes

17. Heartfelt request:

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19. Cliched

20. Diamonds can cut glass, corundum can scratch most other minerals, et al.?

23. Contented

24. Blanketed

27. Crime lab evidence

28. Some Kellogg grads

30. "Breaking Bad" org.

31. Quadri- doubled

34. Director's guidance to be more affable?

37. Staff leaders?

39. Colonial insect

40. Take root

41. Stuffed animals that go viral?

44. Bottom-of-the-barrel stuff

45. Brink

46. Votes of no confidence

47. "The ___ and the Pussycat"

49. Listing agent's field

51. Baja breaks

55. Increase pressure, or an apt title for this puzzle?

58. Fast Amtrak train

60. Euphoric feeling

61. Org. concerned with ergonomics

62. Suddenly took interest

63. Moon goddess

64. Designer Cassini

65. Book maker?

66. Dr. Frankenstein's assistant

67. Tiny bits

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Down

1. Pet welfare org.

2. Series opener

3. Scrub-up stop

4. Leakproof

5. Fixed point in a mobile contract

6. "My thoughts are with you"

7. Calendar page, maybe

8. ___ control

9. Save on spending

10. Singer Baker

11. What one might Bumble into?

12. Cheetah, to Wonder Woman

13. Wrap (up)

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22. Berry in a yogurt bowl

25. Uncanny

26. Consigns to hell

28. Buffing and painting services

29. Tera- finisher

32. Orange studder, at Christmas

33. Private meeting

35. Averse to work

36. "Gosh darn it!"

38. South-facing gardens, maybe

42. "Pillowtalk" singer

43. "Rumor has it ..."

48. Teeny-tiny

50. Humdingers

51. Dictation taker

52. Physicist Nikola

53. Reacted to a laser show, perhaps

54. Bambi and others

56. Knobbly citrus

57. Socket filler

58. Egyptian viper

59. Token in The Game of Life

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