The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word ALTERNATE which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 2005.
What black and white squares do on a chessboard crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| ALTERNATE | 100 % | 9 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: What black and white squares do on a chessboard
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- checkered flag
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- holstein
- ermine
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Crossword Answer definitions
ALTERNATE noun- That which alternates with something else; vicissitude.
- A substitute; an alternative; one designated to take the place of another, if necessary, in performing some duty.
- A proportion derived from another proportion by interchanging the means.
- A replacement of equal or greater value or function.
- Figures or tinctures that succeed each other by turns.
- To perform by turns, or in succession; to cause to succeed by turns; to interchange regularly.
- To happen, succeed, or act by turns; to follow reciprocally in place or time; followed by with.
- To vary by turns.
- To perform an alternation (removal of alternate vertices) on (a polytope or tessellation); to remove vertices (from a face or edge) as part of an alternation.
- Happening by turns; one following the other in succession of time or place; first one and then the other (repeatedly)
- Designating the members in a series, which regularly intervene between the members of another series, as the odd or even numbers of the numerals; every other; every second.
- Other; alternative.
- (of leaves) Distributed singly at different heights of the stem, and at equal intervals as respects angular divergence.
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