Related Clues:

• Pale as a ghost
• Terribly pale
• Pale-faced
• Gray, in a way
• Begrimed with soot
• Like fireplaces
• Ashen
• Like dirty hearths
• Pasty-faced
• Like some complexions
• Far from florid
• Out of the pink?
• See 12-Across
• Soot-covered
• Hardly ruddy