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What Checkmate Means Crossword Clue

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99%13THEKINGISDEADExact Match!
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31%9 US means to pay China in defeat
noun

• complete victory

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

verb

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

28%3What a checkmate causes
noun

• either extremity of something that has length

• the point in time at which something ends

• the final stage or concluding parts of an event or occurrence

• the state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it

• a final part or section

• a final state

• the surface at either extremity of a three-dimensional object

• (football) the person who plays at one end of the line of scrimmage

• a boundary marking the extremities of something

• one of two places from which people are communicating to each other

• the part you are expected to play

• the last section of a communication

• a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold

• (American football) a position on the line of scrimmage, designating players at each end of the defensive line

verb

• have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical

• bring to an end or halt

• be the end of; be the last or concluding part of

• put an end to

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New York Times26 Nov 1979 Across 19 THEKINGISDEAD
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