Clues for the word "KING"
We've had 187 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 249 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Daily Cryptic crossword on November 17, 2025.
Definition of king
- n. - A Chinese musical instrument, consisting of resonant stones or metal plates, arranged according to their tones in a frame of wood, and struck with a hammer.
- n. - A chief ruler; a sovereign; one invested with supreme authority over a nation, country, or tribe, usually by hereditary succession; a monarch; a prince.
- n. - One who, or that which, holds a supreme position or rank; a chief among competitors; as, a railroad king; a money king; the king of the lobby; the king of beasts.
- n. - A playing card having the picture of a king; as, the king of diamonds.
- n. - The chief piece in the game of chess.
- n. - A crowned man in the game of draughts.
- n. - The title of two historical books in the Old Testament.
- v. i. - To supply with a king; to make a king of; to raise to royalty.
Referring Clues
- Kind of snake or crab
- Picture card
- Bed choice
- "I have a dream" speaker
- With 2-Down, a famous stage father
- Double-decker checker
- Double checker
- Hopper around a board
- Word before snake or crab
- It may be checked
- Queen's mate
- Piece moved in castling
- Nickname for Elvis
- Chess piece
- Lear or Midas
- Checkmate capture
- Crowned checker
- Chess piece that starts on its opposite color square
- "I Have a Dream" speechmaker
- Double checker?
- Big man on a board
- Princess' dad
- Top banana
- Hereditary ruler
- Card below ace
- Card in a royal flush
- Tallest chess piece
- Midas, for one
- Male sovereign
- Holiday honoree
- Word with crab or cobra
- Rex
- Checker double-decker
- January honoree
- Dreamer of freedom
- "A right delayed is a right denied" speaker
- Our longest serving PM
- Author of today's quote
- Great Canadian wartime Prime Minister
- Southern Ontario community
- One on a throne
- Goal in checkers
- Spooky Stephen
- Spooky Stephen
- Checkmate target
- See 33-Across
- Certain monarch
- Throne occupant
- Monarch
- See 58-Across
- Longtime CNN interviewer
- Stephen or Larry
- CNN interviewer
- Interviewer Larry
- CNN's Larry
- Kasparov's concern
- High card
- Civil rights pioneer divided at the beginning and end of nine answers in this puzzle
- Royal ruler
- Sergeant Preston's dog
- Large bed size
- Powerful checker
- Powerful pair of checkers
- Nickname for Elvis, with "The" (and what has been dropped from 17-, 30-, 48-, and 66-Across)
- Wears a crown
- Hotel room option
- Canada's longest serving Prime Minister
- Victim of a check
- Queen's spouse
- Lear or Tut
- Title for Arthur or James
- Major chess piece
- MacKenzie or Dave
- Elvis' title
- Checkmate victim
- Checkers double-decker
- Piece involved in castling
- Wenceslaus, e.g.
- Celebrated person in January
- 46-Down, for one
- Royal flush card
- Bed size
- Mattress choice
- Cowboy, in poker slang
- Juan Carlos of Spain, for one
- Mackenzie ____ Clancy
- Chess piece or British Columbia island
- Dave ___ Clancy
- Juan Carlos, for one
- "Selma" role
- Checker that's a double-decker
- Two-checker piece
- "Cujo" author
- "Selma" lead role
- Double-high checker
- Mattress size
- 44-Across VIP
- Mattress option
- Wind at My Back star Charmione ____
- Board member?
- Double-decker game piece
- "Stride Toward Freedom" author
- Member of royalty
- Certain royal
- Chess game piece
- With 41-Down, movie ape
- Princess' father
- Board game double-decker
- Sovereign the family start grabbing
- Male monarch
- "Sensitive Artist" group ___ Missile
- "Dancing in the Moonlight" ___ Harvest
- Cult "Sun ___"
- Court card
- See 22
- Part of truss delivered by Royal Mail
- Male on the throne
- Man with a crown
- Top guy, Ali departs African capital having shut up Foreman, finally
- Chesspiece which mustn't be lost
- Ruler
- Posing like deposed ruler
- Most important chesspiece
- Play set in medieval Britain
- Doctor likes jabbing me for origin of some answers here
- See 2
- Stock sum of money that may well be checked
- Most important chessman
- Face in a hand
- Mythical monarch commemorated by 1
- Eponymous giant ape in movie
- Legendary monarch
- Head of family, note
- Senior royal
- See 16 down
- Family's regal tragedy
- See 12
- They're close, close to getting top man
- Piece with a cross
- January holiday honoree
- Elvis's title, The ___
- Best selling writer's weight reduced (eating short measure)
- Man in relation to the Godhead?
- Religious leader, follower of Martin Luther
- Men eating last of lobster, seafood
- Ruler essential to work in geometry
- 2 dashed off among the top performers
- Family enclosed courtyard at old city, one scheduled for a comeback?
- Gilbertian with 17 26 and great 15s, chiefly 9 on 5 across 1s for his 11s
- Related to 9's leader, this 6 is 13's top one
- See 10
- US civil rights leader, assassinated 1968
- Title for Queen Elizabeth's father
- Requesting to put away a second piece
- Disliking learning about play
- At draughts, he's twice the man he was
- Chesspiece
- Piece that gets checked
- Bed selection
- Second-highest poker card
- Ghastly gargantuan gorilla
- ___
- Two-tiered checker
- Highest face card
- Checker after reaching the other side of the board
- Sovereign
- Piece that gets checkmated
- Piece between a bishop and a queen
- With 115-Across, [gorilla] [woman] [building]
- Leader memorialized by the Stone of Hope statue near the National Mall
- Coretta Scott ___
- ___ Princess (singer of the queer anthem "1950")
- Maximum mattress
- Who delivered the speech "When Peace Becomes Obnoxious"
- "Look at Me Now" singer Emily
- Chess piece used for castling
- Checker that makes it to the other side of the board
- Henry I, e.g.
- Crowned one
- It's worth zero in baccarat
- Martin Luther ___ Jr.
- Contested title on "Game of Thrones"
- "___ me!" (checkers cry)
- Elvis's title
- Billie Jean ___ (tennis icon)
- The "K" of MLK
- Charles III, e.g.
Last Seen In
- Daily Cryptic - November 17, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - September 11, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - August 15, 2025
- New York Times - April 29, 2025
- Daily Quick - March 14, 2025
- Your Life Choices - January 25, 2025
- Daily Quick - January 17, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - November 29, 2024
- Mirror Mini - November 28, 2024
- Daily Quick - November 19, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - November 17, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - October 15, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 02, 2024
- Daily Quick - September 23, 2024
- LA Times - August 22, 2024
- USA Today - July 21, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - June 07, 2024
- USA Today - May 30, 2024
- Daily American - May 21, 2024
- USA Today - April 04, 2024
- Mirror Mini - November 28, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - November 17, 2023
- USA Today - November 08, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - November 04, 2023
- New Zealand Herald - October 18, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - August 17, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - August 01, 2023
- Your Life Choices - July 22, 2023
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - June 28, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - May 18, 2023
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