Checkmate symbol Crossword Clue

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Checkmate symbol Crossword Answer

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Hint 1: Clue Definitions

CHECKMATE (noun)
1. a chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible attack on the opponent’s king
2. complete victory
CHECKMATE (verb)
1. place an opponent’s king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game
SYMBOL (noun)
1. something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible
2. an arbitrary sign (written or printed) that has acquired a conventional significance

More LA Times Crossword (9/4/2025) Answers

Across

1. Moves like a rabbit

5. First film critic to win a Pulitzer Prize

10. Serving water in a dribble cup, e.g.

13. Keep away from

15. Squabble

16. "Sorry, but it's __ from me"

17. Consciousness-raising discussions

19. Pt. of USNA

20. West __: Williams-Sonoma subsidiary

21. Wags

22. Edge along

24. Library patron

26. Start of a cycle?

29. God whose chariot is pulled by the goats Tanngrisnir and Tanngnjóstr

30. Always trying to get one's way

34. Mideast leader

35. Volcanic depression

36. Entered quickly

38. Brought (up) from the past

42. Tamagotchi, e.g.

44. Penne ___ vodka

45. Member of the Syncopated Ladies, e.g.

48. Squirrel away

49. Tennis icon Arthur

50. Communication sys. at Gallaudet

51. Musical note part

52. The first "M" of MGM

54. Spot in the agua

56. Genetic letters

59. "___ Maria"

60. "Let's hope so!," or what is found in this puzzle's circled letters

64. Hi-__ image

65. Maui neighbor

66. Bones at the bases of spines

67. Works at a studio

68. "Get Smart" role

69. Take from the top

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Down

1. Critter that moves like a rabbit

2. Like some hand mirrors

3. Chappell Roan genre

4. Certain sib

5. The right way to go on a map?

6. City near Bath

7. Nwodim of 'SNL'

8. Become messy, as mascara

9. Model Holliday

10. Leader who was nominated for, but never won, a Nobel Peace Prize

11. Like grandfather clocks

12. Rule

14. __ decimal system

18. Polite address

23. Were on!

25. Surfer who rips

27. Steering option

28. Like neon

30. Pay-__-click

31. Thurman of "Red, White & Royal Blue"

32. Loses it

33. “Black-ish” father

35. Aetna rival

37. ___ de los Muertos

39. Campy genre

40. Aboveground trains

41. Morse mark

43. Image on Louisiana license plates

45. Tunie of "Beyond the Gates"

46. "Sincerely" alternative

47. Acidity check

48. Huge supporters, in slang

51. ___-mo

53. Ark. neighbor

55. Short routine

57. Makimono layer

58. Scott of "Severance"

61. Really bug

62. "I, for __ ... "

63. Had the job of

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