Alternate letters indicators
Every other letter of a stretch of the clue is used.
Take every other letter (odd or even positions) from a stretch of the clue, often across word boundaries.
Common Alternate letters indicators
- alternate
- alternately
- alternatively
- at times
- even
- even bits
- evenly
- evens
- every other
- every second
- from time to time
- intermittently
- irregularly
- now and again
- now and then
- occasionally
- odd
- odd bits
- oddly
- odds
- off and on
- on and off
- periodically
- regular
- regularly
- unevenly
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