Related Clues:

• Tip of little finger sliced off, black
• Like fingers stained by a pen
• It’s very dark in Kentucky
• Dark as night
• Stained; very dark
• Like the depths
• Very dark; leaking (pen)
• One of the "Pac-Man" ghosts
• Stained; dark
• Like a messy calligrapher's hands
• Dark where US 'Derby' run?
• Like a calligrapher's fingers, at times
• Dark (as writing fluid?)
• Number of old Emile Zola volumes initialled, risky circling those with stained finger
• Like a leaky ballpoint pen