| Chess rating system named for its creator | 41 |
| Chess ranking system that is also used in MLB | 45 |
| Chess problems having two solutions | 35 |
| Chess player's starting tactic | 34 |
| Chess player's curious deduction? | 37 |
| Chess player's "I win" | 36 |
| Chess player's ''Way to go!'' | 49 |
| Chess pieces that can jump others: Abbr. | 40 |
| Chess piece/Monopoly piece choice? | 34 |
| Chess piece that can't move diagonally | 42 |
| Chess piece between le fou and la dame | 38 |
| Chess piece between dame and fou | 32 |
| Chess move you can only make once | 33 |
| Chess master who died in Iceland | 32 |
| Chess grandmaster Svetozar Gligoric, e.g. | 41 |
| Chess endings that don't hold up? | 37 |
| Chess computer + thick directory? | 33 |
| Chess champion who succeeded Botvinnik | 38 |
| Chess champion after Fischer, Anatoly | 37 |
| Chess champ before and after Botvinnik | 38 |
| Chess between Charlie and his number one son? | 45 |
| Chess and tennis, mathematically | 32 |
| Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, for one | 47 |
| Chesapeake Bay or Oslo Fjord, e.g. | 34 |
| Chesapeake Bay channel and 1862 battle site | 43 |
| Cheryl ___ of "Charlie's Angels" | 46 |
| Cheryl of "Curb Your Enthusiasm" | 42 |
| Cheryl of "Charlie's Angels" | 42 |
| Cherry's videos = Grapes _____ | 34 |
| Cherry ___ (Ben & Jerry's offering) | 43 |
| Cherry with "Buffalo Stance" | 38 |
| Cherokee ___, Georgia's flower | 34 |
| Chero-Cola Company's successor | 34 |
| Cherished position in auto racing | 33 |
| Cheri who played Judge Judy on "SNL" | 46 |
| Cheri of SNL cheerleader sketches | 33 |
| Cheri of "The Ant Bully" | 34 |
| Cheri of "Scary Movie" | 32 |
| Cheri of "Saturday Night Live" fame | 45 |
| Cheri of "Saturday Night Live" | 40 |
| Cheri of "Inspector Gadget" | 37 |
| Cheri of "Dumb and Dumberer" | 38 |
| Cheri of ''SNL'' fame | 37 |
| Cheri in the "SNL" cheerleaders skit | 46 |
| Cheri in old "SNL" cheerleaders skits | 47 |
| Cheri in ''Scary Movie'' | 40 |
| Cheri formerly of "SNL" | 33 |
| Cheri formerly of "S.N.L." | 36 |
| Cheri formerly of 'Saturday Night Live' | 47 |
| Cher's role in "Burlesque" | 40 |
| Cher's portrayer in "Clueless" | 44 |
| Cher's "____ Really Want to Do" | 45 |
| Cher cover "It's in ___" | 38 |
| Cher "___ Could Turn Back Time" | 41 |
| Cheongsam dress with lotus flowers on it? | 41 |
| Chenoweth of Broadway's "Wicked" | 46 |
| Cheney's successor as vice president | 40 |
| Cheney's successor as Defense Secretary | 43 |
| Cheney's erstwhile bailiwick | 32 |
| Cheney chief of staff Scooter __ | 32 |
| Chemists' devices to get rid of love handles? | 49 |
| Chemistry Nobelist Jacobus van't | 36 |
| Chemistry book chapter,with "the" | 43 |
| Chemist's symbol of brutish authority? | 42 |
| Chemist's Olympics champions? | 33 |
| Chemist's military miniature? | 33 |
| Chemist's inorganic compound | 32 |
| Chemist's extracting solvent | 32 |
| Chemist's double bond compound | 34 |
| Chemist who funded prestigious prizes | 37 |
| Chemist Remsen, discoverer of saccharin | 39 |
| Chemist for whom a flask is named | 33 |
| Chemist and composer put squeeze on painter | 43 |
| Chemin ___ Dames (W.W. I battle locale) | 39 |
| Chemin de ___ (casino card game) | 32 |
| Chemin de fer bettor's declaration | 38 |
| Chemicals banned by Congress in '76 | 39 |
| Chemically nonreactive, as a gas | 32 |
| Chemical used to cure animal skins | 34 |
| Chemical used in film developing | 32 |
| Chemical used by document forgers | 33 |
| Chemical that keeps the baloney out? | 36 |
| Chemical substance used in a darkroom | 37 |
| Chemical substance that hastens aging | 37 |
| Chemical sprayed on fruit until 1989 | 36 |
| Chemical salt in some black inks | 32 |
| Chemical restricted by the Stockholm Convention | 47 |
| Chemical process also called hyperfiltration | 44 |
| Chemical plant graffiti, perhaps | 32 |
| Chemical in the dumbest diet ever? | 34 |
| Chemical in nail-polish removers | 32 |
| Chemical group derived from benzene | 35 |
| Chemical found in rocket propellants | 36 |
| Chemical formula for sodium hydroxide | 37 |
| Chemical featured at some modern dispensaries | 45 |
| Chemical element with the symbol Fe | 35 |
| Chemical element with the shortest name | 39 |
| Chemical element linked to lung cancer | 38 |
| Chemical compounds resembling others | 36 |
| Chemical compound resembling another one | 40 |