The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word AZURE
I've seen this crossword clue in The Guardian
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More clues leading to the result AZURE
- Blue haze, nothing extreme, over river
- Arizona river’s deep blue
- Blue streetmap certain to lose its front
- Street maps have your report in colour
- Ezra Pound’s heart battered and blue
- Extreme characters on river that’s blue
- River shown on street-map in blue
- A last letter regularly queried shade
- Blue uniform pressed by Arizona’s engineers
- Blue design of quartz panel, oddly chipped
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The straight part
We know that "colour" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case colour = azure.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does AZURE mean?
AZURE noun- A blue colour on a coat of arms, represented in engraving by horizontal parallel lines.
- The clear blue colour of the sky; also, a pigment or dye of this colour.
- The unclouded sky; the blue vault above.
- Any of various widely distributed lycaenid butterflies of the genus Celastrina.
- Any of various Australasian lycaenid butterflies of the genus Ogyris.
- Lapis lazuli.
- To colour blue.
- Sky blue; resembling the clear blue colour of the unclouded sky
- Cloudless
- In blazon, of the colour blue.