Related Clues:

• A retiring pale might have been in the fire
• Not a forward pale
• Pale enough to have a throw at it
• Have a throw at what's been burnt grey
• Lacking much hue
• Covered in soot
• One retiring pale (4)
• In 6 down it would get any in response
• A retiring way as hen might make it
• Alighted half a century with it
• Any more for response when the fire is going?
• Like a fireplace grate
• Pale in a retiring kind of way
• Like a used barbecue pit
• Covered with cinders