Tie in chess
The crossword clue "Tie in chess" is answered by DRAW, a 4-letter entry. Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2008. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
DRAW
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the DRAW answer page.
Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2008. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
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Other clues for DRAW
Every other clue in this collection answered by DRAW, most used first.
- Sketch - used 101 times, most recently in 2026
- Tie - used 43 times, most recently in 2025
- Attract - used 30 times, most recently in 2025
- No-win situation - used 26 times, most recently in 2025
- Attraction - used 20 times, most recently in 2019
- Make a sketch - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
- Gunslinger's command - used 16 times, most recently in 2024
- Oater challenge - used 14 times, most recently in 2019
- Stalemate - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- Poker variety - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
- Gunslinger's challenge - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
- Kind of poker - used 10 times, most recently in 2020
- Old West challenge - used 9 times, most recently in 2021
- Take a card - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Enticement - used 8 times, most recently in 2017
- Make a sketch of - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Create a cartoon - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Doodle - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Etch or sketch - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
- Pick a card - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Chess result, sometimes - used 6 times, most recently in 2011
- Dead heat - used 6 times, most recently in 2004
- Lure - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Pick from a deck - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Shootout shout - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- Chess piece - ROOK, used 109 times
- Tie up - BIND, used 45 times
- String tie - BOLO, used 41 times
- Chess piece - PAWN, used 40 times
- Corner chess piece - ROOK, used 30 times
- Lowly chess piece - PAWN, used 23 times
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