Related Clues:

• Like a burnt-out briquette
• Hardly healthy-looking
• Like a chimney
• Sickly, as a complexion
• Hardly hale
• Audibly astonished
• Audibly in shock
• Like a used fireplace
• Like burnt briquettes
• Like many fireplaces
• So pale one would like to have a throw at it
• What a retiring way to jet pale!
• A retiring sort of pale?
• That's not beyond the pale - like the start of 22 across
• That's a retiring class of a pale