| Cheshire-cat feature | 20 |
| Cheshire-Cat's leftover | 27 |
| Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, for one | 47 |
| Chesley Sullenberger, e.g. | 26 |
| Chesney or G | 12 |
| Chess "castles" | 25 |
| Chess : check :: go : ___ | 25 |
| Chess ace | 9 |
| Chess action | 12 |
| Chess actions | 13 |
| Chess aid | 9 |
| Chess analyst Shelby __ | 23 |
| Chess and Candy Land | 20 |
| Chess and checkers | 18 |
| Chess and Monopoly | 18 |
| Chess and Risk | 14 |
| Chess and tennis, mathematically | 32 |
| Chess announcement | 18 |
| Chess as opposed to football | 28 |
| Chess between Charlie and his number one son? | 45 |
| Chess call | 10 |
| Chess castle | 12 |
| Chess castles | 13 |
| Chess champ 1960-61 | 20 |
| Chess champ after Fischer | 25 |
| Chess champ before and after Botvinnik | 38 |
| Chess champ Boris | 17 |
| Chess champ Karpov | 18 |
| Chess champ Mikhail | 19 |
| Chess champ. | 12 |
| Chess champ: 1960-61 | 20 |
| Chess champ: 1960–61 | 27 |
| Chess champion after Fischer | 28 |
| Chess champion after Fischer, Anatoly | 37 |
| Chess champion Capablanca | 25 |
| Chess champion Fischer | 22 |
| Chess champion Mikhail | 22 |
| Chess champion named in 1972 | 28 |
| Chess champion of 1960 | 22 |
| Chess champion of 1960-61 | 25 |
| Chess champion of crosswordese | 30 |
| Chess champion Spassky | 22 |
| Chess champion who succeeded Botvinnik | 38 |
| Chess champion, Mikhail | 23 |
| Chess champion: 1960–61 | 30 |
| Chess climax | 12 |
| Chess climaxes | 14 |
| Chess closer | 12 |
| Chess closing | 13 |
| Chess column info | 17 |
| Chess competitor | 16 |
| Chess components | 16 |
| Chess computer + thick directory? | 33 |
| Chess conclusions | 17 |
| Chess corner piece | 18 |
| Chess crisis | 12 |
| Chess declaration | 17 |
| Chess defeats | 13 |
| Chess denouement | 16 |
| Chess empire? | 13 |
| Chess ending | 12 |
| Chess ending? | 13 |
| Chess endings | 13 |
| Chess endings that don't hold up? | 37 |
| Chess endings: Abbr. | 20 |
| Chess expert | 12 |
| Chess finale | 12 |
| Chess finales | 13 |
| Chess gambit | 12 |
| Chess game ending | 17 |
| Chess game record | 17 |
| Chess game step | 15 |
| Chess goal | 10 |
| Chess grand master Anatoly | 26 |
| Chess grandmaster Anatoly | 25 |
| Chess grandmaster Nimzowitsch | 29 |
| Chess grandmaster Polgar | 24 |
| Chess Grandmaster Spassky | 25 |
| Chess grandmaster Svetozar Gligoric, e.g. | 41 |
| Chess great keeping warm? | 25 |
| Chess great Mikhail | 19 |
| Chess great Spassky | 19 |
| Chess jumpers: Abbr. | 20 |
| Chess klutz | 11 |
| Chess legend Bobby | 18 |
| Chess log | 9 |
| Chess man | 9 |
| Chess maneuver | 14 |
| Chess master Ivo ___ | 20 |
| Chess master Karpov | 19 |
| Chess master Kasparov | 21 |
| Chess master Mikhail | 20 |
| Chess master of the '60s | 28 |
| Chess master who died in Iceland | 32 |
| Chess match enders | 18 |
| Chess match need | 16 |
| Chess match phase | 17 |
| Chess move | 10 |
| Chess move you can only make once | 33 |
| Chess moves | 11 |