What Black And White Squares Do On A Chessboard

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adjective • of leaves and branches etc; first on one side and then on the other in two ranks along an axis; not paired noun • someone who takes the place of another person adjective satellite • every second one of a series • serving or used in place of another • occurring by turns; first one and then the other verb • go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions • exchange people temporarily to fulfill certain jobs and functions • be an understudy or alternate for a role • reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action) • do something in turns
	49%	15		A popular form of word puzzle that typically takes the form of a square or rectangle grid of white- and black-shaded squares. The goal is to fill the white squares with letters, forming words based on given clues.
noun • a puzzle in which words corresponding to numbered clues are to be found and written in to squares in the puzzle
	41%	4		The number of black squares on a chessboard
adjective satellite • coming next after the twenty-third in position

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	Clue	Source
1	A column of soldiers, crocodile of schoolchildren, queue of traffic, row of chessboard squares or other line-like formation; or, a dossier Telegraph Herculis - 17 Jul 2023	Telegraph Herculis / 17 Jul 2023
2	A popular form of word puzzle that typically takes the form of a square or rectangle grid of white- and black-shaded squares. The goal is to fill the white squares with letters, forming words based on given clues.
3	A regular quadrilateral; a quartile aspect; the figurative “shape” of a full, balanced meal; a mortarboard; a carpenter’s measure; or, one of a chessboard’s black/white spaces Telegraph Giant General Knowledge - 01 Apr 2023	Telegraph Giant General Knowledge / 01 Apr 2023
4	Fans of black-and-white squares New York Times - 25 Feb 1984	New York Times / 25 Feb 1984
5	From the Greek for “through”, a line joining non-adjacent vertices of a square or other polygon; a slanting row of squares of the same colour on a chessboard; or, the bias of cloth Telegraph Giant General Knowledge - 29 Apr 2023	Telegraph Giant General Knowledge / 29 Apr 2023
6	The number of black squares on a chessboard
7	Ultimately, black on black - something black or white The Guardian Cryptic - 29 Jul 2008	The Guardian Cryptic / 29 Jul 2008

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