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Colors crossword

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Colors12345678910111213141516

Across

  • 6 Dull yellow-green seen on army uniforms
  • 8 Blue-green named for a gemstone
  • 9 Vivid red of a cardinal's feathers
  • 12 Dark blue-violet between blue and violet in a rainbow
  • 13 Full band of hues split out by a prism
  • 14 Soft light tint, like baby blue or mint
  • 16 Shining yellow, as in a retriever's coat

Down

  • 1 Board an artist mixes paints on
  • 2 Type of color that red, yellow and blue are
  • 3 Brownish dark red, or to strand on an island
  • 4 Very dark gray named for a drawing stick
  • 5 Pale purple sharing its name with a fragrant herb
  • 7 Bright purplish pink in printer ink sets
  • 10 Deep rich shade of red
  • 11 Deep blue-green named after a duck
  • 15 Plain sandy tan, often called boring

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Colors1P2PARL3M4C5L6OLIVEAHA7MMTRAVAATO8TURQUOISEG9S10CARLE11TOCNERYE12INDIGODNIAA13SPECTRUML14PASTELRAS15B16GOLDENNIGE
  1. 1 down: PALETTE. Board an artist mixes paints on
  2. 2 down: PRIMARY. Type of color that red, yellow and blue are
  3. 3 down: MAROON. Brownish dark red, or to strand on an island
  4. 4 down: CHARCOAL. Very dark gray named for a drawing stick
  5. 5 down: LAVENDER. Pale purple sharing its name with a fragrant herb
  6. 6 across: OLIVE. Dull yellow-green seen on army uniforms
  7. 7 down: MAGENTA. Bright purplish pink in printer ink sets
  8. 8 across: TURQUOISE. Blue-green named for a gemstone
  9. 9 across: SCARLET. Vivid red of a cardinal's feathers
  10. 10 down: CRIMSON. Deep rich shade of red
  11. 11 down: TEAL. Deep blue-green named after a duck
  12. 12 across: INDIGO. Dark blue-violet between blue and violet in a rainbow
  13. 13 across: SPECTRUM. Full band of hues split out by a prism
  14. 14 across: PASTEL. Soft light tint, like baby blue or mint
  15. 15 down: BEIGE. Plain sandy tan, often called boring
  16. 16 across: GOLDEN. Shining yellow, as in a retriever's coat
Colors123456789101112131415

Across

  • 3 Board an artist mixes paints on
  • 7 Deep blue-green named after a duck
  • 9 Very dark gray named for a drawing stick
  • 10 Dark blue-violet between blue and violet in a rainbow
  • 11 Vivid red of a cardinal's feathers
  • 12 Brownish dark red, or to strand on an island
  • 14 Blue-green named for a gemstone
  • 15 Dull yellow-green seen on army uniforms

Down

  • 1 Soft light tint, like baby blue or mint
  • 2 Plain sandy tan, often called boring
  • 3 Type of color that red, yellow and blue are
  • 4 Shining yellow, as in a retriever's coat
  • 5 Full band of hues split out by a prism
  • 6 Pale purple sharing its name with a fragrant herb
  • 8 Bright purplish pink in printer ink sets
  • 13 Deep rich shade of red

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Colors1PAS2B3PALETTE4GREIOILGL5S6LM7TEALD8MP9CHARCOALEAEVR10INDIGO11SCARLETYETN12MAROON13CRD14TURQUOISEAIMRMS15OLIVEN
  1. 1 down: PASTEL. Soft light tint, like baby blue or mint
  2. 2 down: BEIGE. Plain sandy tan, often called boring
  3. 3 across: PALETTE. Board an artist mixes paints on
  4. 3 down: PRIMARY. Type of color that red, yellow and blue are
  5. 4 down: GOLDEN. Shining yellow, as in a retriever's coat
  6. 5 down: SPECTRUM. Full band of hues split out by a prism
  7. 6 down: LAVENDER. Pale purple sharing its name with a fragrant herb
  8. 7 across: TEAL. Deep blue-green named after a duck
  9. 8 down: MAGENTA. Bright purplish pink in printer ink sets
  10. 9 across: CHARCOAL. Very dark gray named for a drawing stick
  11. 10 across: INDIGO. Dark blue-violet between blue and violet in a rainbow
  12. 11 across: SCARLET. Vivid red of a cardinal's feathers
  13. 12 across: MAROON. Brownish dark red, or to strand on an island
  14. 13 down: CRIMSON. Deep rich shade of red
  15. 14 across: TURQUOISE. Blue-green named for a gemstone
  16. 15 across: OLIVE. Dull yellow-green seen on army uniforms
Colors123456789101112131415

Across

  • 4 Vivid red of a cardinal's feathers
  • 6 Plain sandy tan, often called boring
  • 8 Blue-green named for a gemstone
  • 9 Deep rich shade of red
  • 11 Board an artist mixes paints on
  • 12 Type of color that red, yellow and blue are
  • 14 Dull yellow-green seen on army uniforms
  • 15 Shining yellow, as in a retriever's coat

Down

  • 1 Full band of hues split out by a prism
  • 2 Deep blue-green named after a duck
  • 3 Very dark gray named for a drawing stick
  • 5 Pale purple sharing its name with a fragrant herb
  • 7 Dark blue-violet between blue and violet in a rainbow
  • 10 Bright purplish pink in printer ink sets
  • 12 Soft light tint, like baby blue or mint
  • 13 Brownish dark red, or to strand on an island

Print the page above, or take the hard grid as a PDF. Both carry the answer key, and large print is a setting rather than a separate file.

Show the answer key
Colors1S2TP3C4SCAR5LET6BEIGEHAACAV7IL8TURQUOISENRCNDUODIMAEGL9CRI10MSONAG11PALETTENT12PRI13MARYAASRTOE14OLIVE15GOLDEN
  1. 1 down: SPECTRUM. Full band of hues split out by a prism
  2. 2 down: TEAL. Deep blue-green named after a duck
  3. 3 down: CHARCOAL. Very dark gray named for a drawing stick
  4. 4 across: SCARLET. Vivid red of a cardinal's feathers
  5. 5 down: LAVENDER. Pale purple sharing its name with a fragrant herb
  6. 6 across: BEIGE. Plain sandy tan, often called boring
  7. 7 down: INDIGO. Dark blue-violet between blue and violet in a rainbow
  8. 8 across: TURQUOISE. Blue-green named for a gemstone
  9. 9 across: CRIMSON. Deep rich shade of red
  10. 10 down: MAGENTA. Bright purplish pink in printer ink sets
  11. 11 across: PALETTE. Board an artist mixes paints on
  12. 12 across: PRIMARY. Type of color that red, yellow and blue are
  13. 12 down: PASTEL. Soft light tint, like baby blue or mint
  14. 13 down: MAROON. Brownish dark red, or to strand on an island
  15. 14 across: OLIVE. Dull yellow-green seen on army uniforms
  16. 15 across: GOLDEN. Shining yellow, as in a retriever's coat

About Colors

Color names come from all over: crimson and scarlet trace back to dye trades, magenta was named after a battle fought in Italy, and turquoise borrowed its name from the stone. Others point straight at an object, like olive, lavender, teal, and charcoal. Newton's work with a prism showed that white light splits into a spectrum, and painters still mix from a palette built on primary hues. This crossword works through those names and the vocabulary around them.

Art teachers introducing color theory, and anyone who wants the names behind the shades they already recognize.

What is in this crossword

A 22 by 15 crossword with 7 across and 9 down, on the subject of Colors.

Grid
22 x 15
Across
7
Down
9
Longest answer
TURQUOISE (9 letters)

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