Expendable chess piece
The crossword clue "Expendable chess piece" is answered by PAWN, a 4-letter entry. Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2015; first recorded in 2003. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
PAWN
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the PAWN answer page.
Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2015; first recorded in 2003. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for PAWN
Every other clue in this collection answered by PAWN, most used first.
- Chess piece - used 40 times, most recently in 2026
- Hock - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
- Lowly chess piece - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
- Small chess piece - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Unwitting accomplice - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- Chess soldier - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Chessman - used 8 times, most recently in 2017
- Minor chess piece - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Puppet - used 8 times, most recently in 2018
- Unwitting tool - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
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.
- Scrabble piece - TILE, used 223 times
- Mah-jongg piece - TILE, used 133 times
- Piece of cake - SNAP, used 122 times
- Chess piece - ROOK, used 109 times
- "Piece of cake!" - EASY, used 109 times
- Construction piece - IBAR, used 72 times
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