Answer: PASTS

AnswerCrossword Clue
PASTSSome people have checkered ones
PASTSPeople's histories
PASTSAt times, they're checkered
PASTSCloset skeletons
PASTSThey may be sordid or checkered
PASTSSome are checkered
PASTSThey're secret for some
PASTSWary employers investigate them
PASTSHistories that may be checkered or sordid
PASTSTimes gone by
PASTSCheckered things
PASTSThey often come back to haunt people
pastsThe time or a period of time before the moment of speaking or writing
pastsThe history of a person, country, or institution
pastsThe events of an earlier time
pastsA part of a person's history that is considered to be shameful
pastsA past tense or form of a verb
pastsPAST, time gone by
PASTSDays gone by.
PASTSFormer times
PASTSPersonal histories
PASTSThese can be checkered
PASTSBackgrounds
PASTSThey might be shady
PASTSThey may be checkered
PASTSFormer lives.
PASTSParts of lives.
PASTSHistories
PASTSHistories.
PASTSBygones.
PASTSTimes gone by.
PASTSSome tenses
PASTSSome have been checkered
PASTSThey may be sordid
PASTSThey might be checkered