Rook or bishop Crossword Clue

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Rook or bishop Crossword Answer

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(verb)
1. repair by adding pieces
2. eat intermittently; take small bites of
(noun)
1. a portion of a natural object
2. an item that is an instance of some type

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

BISHOP (noun)
1. a senior member of the Christian clergy having spiritual and administrative authority; appointed in Christian churches to oversee priests or ministers; considered in some churches to be successors of the twelve Apostles of Christ
2. (chess) a piece that can be moved diagonally over unoccupied squares of the same color
ROOK (noun)
1. common gregarious Old World bird about the size and color of the American crow
2. (chess) the piece that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard
ROOK (verb)
1. deprive of by deceit

More WSJ Crossword (9/1/2026) Answers

Across

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7. It might be a lot

11. Budget limit

14. Camden Yards ballplayer

15. Bird on Canadian coins

16. Spanish cheer

17. *Groundskeeper?

19. Migration formation

20. Bulletin board fastener

21. Stately tree

22. Deplete

24. Opposite of NNW

25. Ventricles?

28. Historian’s study

29. Stop in the Sahara

30. Sweepstakes form

33. German cry

34. Nutrient-rich soil

37. Basemen?

41. Minor mistake

42. Relig. group with elders

43. Gas between neon and krypton on the periodic table

44. Believer in spiritual unity

46. Breaches

48. Long iron?

51. One of the Bobbsey twins

54. Sheet material

55. Word with drum or plug

56. Tiniest bit

57. Copying, on menus

58. Persona non grata at a casino, demonstrated by this puzzle’s theme

62. Thats Not All Folks memoirist Blanc

63. A matter of degrees?

64. Lacking sufficient hemoglobin

65. Workplaces for some M.D.s

66. Nabisco treat

67. Doughnut units

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Down

1. Lacquer layers

2. Black-and-white swimmers

4. Diner staffer

5. TV character from Melmac

6. Patches anew

7. Siege site of 1836

8. Fish-and-chips fish

9. Lobster eggs

10. Occurs next

11. Jimi Hendrix’s “All Along the Watchtower,” for one

12. Alaskan islander

13. Colorful Easter treats

18. Novel framework

23. Cruiser’s complement

25. Diggs of “Rent”

26. Center points

27. “Real funny”

28. Whip up

30. UFO pilots

31. Rangers’ org.

32. Courts of justice

33. Paid spots

35. Furor

36. Yahoo alternative

38. Frozen snowman

39. Acct.-protection org.

40. Tourists’ aids

45. Big boss

46. Green dip, informally

47. Traveling the world, perhaps

48. Olympics symbol

49. Crude carrier

50. Brought about

51. Claim of innocence

52. Skipped the restaurant

53. Dealer catchers

56. “Mockingbird” singer Foxx

59. ___ Lingus

60. Issa of Insecure

61. Dos preceder

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