Cryptic crossword clue
Nasty colour? One should be in shade 5

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word TAINT

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The straight part

We know that "Nasty colour" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case nasty colour = taint.

The cryptic/wordplay part

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This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does TAINT mean?

1. A contamination, decay or putrefaction, especially in food
2. A mark of disgrace, especially on one's character; blemish
3. Tincture; hue; colour
4. Infection; corruption; deprivation
5. A marker indicating that a variable is unsafe and should be subjected to additional security checks.

1. To contaminate or corrupt (something) with an external agent, either physically or morally.
2. To spoil (food) by contamination.
3. To be infected or corrupted; to be touched by something corrupting.
4. To be affected with incipient putrefaction.
5. To mark (a variable) as unsafe, so that operations involving it are subject to additional security checks.
6. To invalidate (a share capital account) by transferring profits into it.

1. A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect.
2. An injury done to a lance in an encounter, without its being broken; also, a breaking of a lance in an encounter in a dishonorable or unscientific manner.

1. To damage, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner.
2. To hit or touch lightly, in tilting.
3. To thrust ineffectually with a lance.

1. The perineum.

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