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Bad News For The King Crossword Clue

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We've checked our database and believe the answer is MATE which was last seen in the New York Times crossword.
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noun

• the officer below the master on a commercial ship

• a fellow member of a team

• the partner of an animal (especially a sexual partner)

• a person's partner in marriage

• an exact duplicate

• one of a pair

• South American holly; leaves used in making a drink like tea

• informal term for a friend of the same sex

• South American tea-like drink made from leaves of a South American holly called mate

• a chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible attack on the opponent's king

verb

• engage in sexual intercourse

• bring two objects, ideas, or people together

• place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game

27%3 "I've got good news and bad news" speaker
noun

• the United States federal department that promotes and administers domestic and foreign trade (including management of the census and the patent office); created in 1913

• a licensed medical practitioner

27%3 Good-news-to-bad-news transition
adverb

• and nothing more

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New York Times11 Dec 1998 Across 21
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