Clues for the word "CHECKMATE"
We've had 27 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 26 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Daily Quick crossword on January 01, 2026.
Definition of checkmate
- n. - The position in the game of chess when a king is in check and cannot be released, -- which ends the game.
- n. - A complete check; utter defeat or overthrow.
- v. t. - To check (an adversary's king) in such a manner that escape in impossible; to defeat (an adversary) by putting his king in check from which there is no escape.
- v. t. - To defeat completely; to terminate; to thwart.
Referring Clues
- Defeat
- Result of black's move from the upper-left board to the lower-right board
- Likely last word to a patzer
- Game-ending announcement
- Carefully review a crew member's work?
- Last word in a cerebral game
- Chess victory
- Coup for Kasparov
- *Chess ending
- Fischer finisher
- Game-ending declaration
- Stop partner signalling end of engagement on board
- Conclusion of chess game
- So there's no more moving ally in Havel, might you say?
- Restrain a friend in final defeat
- Winning chess position
- To spy on one's partner is the end
- Final defeat in test match
- Vet's partner gets clincher
- Winning move in chess
- Board finish
- Chess move
- Grandmaster's last word ... and what the last word in 17-, 24-, 36- and 52-Across can be
- Victory in a game of chess
- Associate at a bank?
- One ending for a classic board game - another of which (when a player resigns) is represented visually six times in this puzzle
- End of chess game
Last Seen In
- Daily Quick - January 01, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - November 28, 2025
- Daily Quick - January 23, 2025
- Daily Quick - January 01, 2024
- Daily Quick - January 23, 2023
- Daily Quick - January 01, 2018
- Guardian Cryptic - April 14, 2017
- LA Times - November 25, 2015
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - July 15, 2015
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - September 10, 2013
- New York Times - September 17, 2012
- Guardian Cryptic - August 10, 2012
- Guardian Cryptic - June 20, 2012
- Guardian Quick - July 28, 2010
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - April 19, 2010
- Guardian Cryptic - August 28, 2009
- Guardian Cryptic - February 03, 2009
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - June 24, 2008
- New York Sun - July 23, 2007
- LA Times - May 18, 2007
- Guardian Quick - July 05, 2006
- LA Times - May 31, 2006
- New York Times - January 30, 2005
- Washington Post - June 24, 2002
- Guardian Cryptic - October 05, 2001
- New York Times - January 06, 2000