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Squirrel shade (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

gray

(Other definitions for gray that I've seen before include "Author of ballad opera" , "English poet" , "An Anatomist; an Elegist" , "Elegiac poet" , "a bit gloomy for the Americans" .)

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