The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word GHOUL
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More clues leading to the result GHOUL
- Malevolent spirit of bird endlessly circling house
- Good time to change sides with spirit
- Monster emerging from turbulent lough
- Frenchman possibly with house for a revolting person
- Spirit with look not OK — ugh, awful!
- Arab fiend has operated primarily in most of Arab region?
- Guts in age should reveal morbid person
- Although odd, short plastic hat provides shade
- Some gung-ho ulcerous fiend
- Gory, hair-raising operation undergoing, likely to look at the sources for spirit
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The straight part
We know that "shade" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case shade = ghoul.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does GHOUL mean?
GHOUL noun- (Muslim demonology) A demon said to feed on corpses.
- A graverobber.
- A person with an undue interest in death and corpses, or more generally in things that are revolting and repulsive.