Black, as a flue (5)

I believe the answer is:

sooty

'black as a flue' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)

This is the entire clue.

(Other definitions for sooty that I've seen before include "TV glove puppet" , "Hand-puppet TV bear" , "Covered in black dust" , "black marks" , "Blackened; -- tern" .)

I've seen this clue in the Newsday.com and the Newsday.

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