Related Clues:

• Covered in soot
• The likes of a grey, burnt fowl
• Colourless cover I had of late
• One retiring pale (4)
• As foul-sounding as it's pale
• Not beyond the pale in such a foul-sounding fashion
• What has Dad eaten with the pigs there?
• A retiring way as hen might make it
• Not a shade of what we are about to give this
• Pale enough to look foul-like, perhaps
• Like a fireplace grate
• Pale in a retiring kind of way
• Like a used barbecue pit
• Covered with cinders
• First to move in chess