They may be checkered
The crossword clue "They may be checkered" is answered by PASTS, a 5-letter entry. Used 11 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2025. It appears in 9 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 11 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2025. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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 might be checkered - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
- Former times - used 6 times, most recently in 2010
- Some are checkered - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
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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.
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