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Its Used To Colour Originally Clear Artificial Fabric

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noun

• writing implement consisting of a colored stick of composition wax used for writing and drawing

verb

• write, draw, or trace with a crayon

33%5 From “toasted”, in reference to its traditional khaki-like colour, a cotton twill fabric, used to make trousers
noun

• a coarse twilled cotton fabric frequently used for uniforms

32%5 From the Latin for “a wan or yellow colour”, word originally meaning pale and dismal, but now unpleasantly bright in colour, garish, loud or vivid
adjective satellite

• horrible in fierceness or savagery

• glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism

• shining with an unnatural red glow as of fire seen through smoke

• ghastly pale

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Telegraph Cryptic04 Sep 2025 Across 16
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