Some are checkered
The crossword clue "Some are checkered" is answered by PASTS, a 5-letter entry. Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2020; first recorded in 2006. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
PASTS
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the PASTS answer page.
Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2020; first recorded in 2006. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for PASTS
Every other clue in this collection answered by PASTS, most used first.
- Personal histories - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
- Histories - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
- They may be checkered - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- They might be checkered - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
- Former times - used 6 times, most recently in 2010
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- Like some gases - INERT, used 48 times
- Some exams - ORALS, used 44 times
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