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Chess Cryptic

◆ · By Melanie Branton · Published 2025-01-04T17:39:20.432Z

Constructor's Note
PAWN = MAN, CASTLE = ROOK, B = BISHOP, K = KING, N = KNIGHT, Q = QUEEN, R = ROOK
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    1A
    Man to use for security (4)
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    Across
    1. 1A
      Man to use for security (4)
    2. 6A
      Endlessly, host that is rook becomes stocking salesman (6)
    3. 8A
      A hundred castles for criminals (6)
    4. 9A
      King has sex appeal and gear! (3)
    5. 10A
      Kill with no king? That's sick! (3)
    6. 13A
      Bean curd from Shinto funeral (4)
    7. 14A
      One likely to be hammered, knight to be ill (4)
    8. 16A
      Gail eats rook in Arthur's chalice (5)
    9. 18A
      Deary, going round castle is very dull! (6)
    Down
    1. 1D
      Raise hat to chess piece filling luggage (7)
    2. 2D
      Whore dumps engineers for TV doctor (3)
    3. 3D
      Knight and king have nothing between them twice in cosy corner (4)
    4. 4D
      Bishop is to make gravy (5)
    5. 5D
      Nothing to queen being trapped in condiment pot - it's just a game for those who are hammered (7)
    6. 7D
      Sit around king in satire (4)
    7. 11D
      Fat lad going round castle (4)
    8. 12D
      Train track overturns for one not telling the truth (4)
    9. 15D
      Don't stand for Porky (3)
    10. 17D
      The French, the Italian or the Spanish (2)
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