Answer: PALES
PALES is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 47 times.
Referring Clues:
- Loses luster
 - More than flinches
 - Loses color
 - Is visibly frightened
 - Sees a ghost, maybe
 - Reacts to bad news, in a way
 - Exhibits terror
 - Fence pickets
 - Shows fear, maybe
 - Loses one's tan
 - Shows fear
 - Compares unfavorably
 - Looks inferior
 - Pickets outside a house?
 - Blanches
 - Looks inferior by comparison
 - Etiolates
 - Hardly measures up
 - Looks bad, comparatively
 - Gets lighter
 - Turns chalky
 - Grows ashen
 - Shows fright
 - Reacts to seeing a ghost, maybe
 - Loses ruddiness
 - Displays fear, maybe
 - Hardly measures up in comparison
 - Looks inferior, comparatively
 - Is lesser (in comparison)
 - Turns whitish
 - Grows wan
 - Doesn't measure up
 - Lightens in color
 - Compares poorly
 - Shows fear, perhaps
 - Grows weaker
 - Becomes wan
 - Gets whiter
 - ___ in comparison
 - Turns white
 - Is drained of color
 - Becomes less important by comparison
 - Is less serious in comparison
 - Doesn't measure up, so to speak
 - Lightens up?
 - Is not so important, comparatively speaking
 - Changes color in fright
 
Last Seen In:
- New York Times - September 03, 2025
 - USA Today - May 08, 2025
 - New York Times - December 07, 2024
 - USA Today - August 21, 2024
 - New York Times - March 01, 2024
 - New York Times - February 10, 2024
 - New York Times - December 26, 2023
 - New York Times - October 08, 2023
 - LA Times - July 30, 2023
 - New York Times - July 11, 2023
 - USA Today - October 05, 2022
 - LA Times - December 23, 2021
 - LA Times - September 15, 2021
 - New York Times - March 31, 2021
 - Universal - March 22, 2021
 - Netword - August 24, 2020
 - Universal - November 27, 2019
 - New York Times - November 22, 2019
 - New York Times - February 22, 2019
 - Universal - November 06, 2018
 
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