Okay, here is the blog post about “red shade crossword” following your requirements:
So I wanted to mess around with one of those crossword puzzles today. I pulled up one online that had a clue about a “red shade”. I thought, well that could be a bunch of things.
First I tried just staring at the empty boxes, hoping the answer would magically pop into my head. No luck. So then I started looking at the letters I already had filled in from other clues. There was an “R” and an “E” in the right spots. Okay, that narrows it down, I thought.
- I figured it probably wasn’t a super obscure color name.
- It had to be something pretty common that most people would know.
I started running through colors in my mind. “Rose” is a red shade but it did not fit. “Crimson” also did not fit.”Scarlet?” Nope. Then it hit me – “ROUGE”! That’s gotta be it. It’s a classic red shade, often used for makeup. I typed it in, and boom, it fit perfectly!
It was so satisfying to finally get it
I moved on to the rest of the puzzle, feeling pretty good about figuring out that one clue. It is funny how your brain works sometimes. You can be totally stumped, and then suddenly the answer just comes to you. Just one of these small moments. Hope you had a good one too.
