Clues for the word "PAWNS"
We've had 78 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 120 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Your Life Choices crossword on November 27, 2025.
Referring Clues
- Members of a chess line
- Tools
- They can be taken en passant
- Hocks
- King protectors
- Unwitting tools
- Front line in a game
- One row on a chessboard
- Puppets
- Deposits as security for money
- Chess pieces
- Lowest value chess pieces
- Half a chess set
- Leaves in hock
- Future queens, maybe
- Little men in the front row
- Chess player's octet
- Knight protectors
- Minor chesspieces
- Lowly chess pieces
- Board members of a sort
- Chess row
- Chessboard pieces
- Grandmaster's octet
- Chessboard line
- Half of a chess set
- Most of a chess set
- Kasparov's soldiers
- Puts in hock
- Chess soldiers
- Low-value chess pieces
- Little men
- Future queens, perhaps
- Exploited ones
- King's soldiers
- Half of the chess pieces
- They're often sacrificed in gambits
- Lowest-value chess pieces
- Some chess pieces
- People used by others
- Cat's-paws
- Recipients of some promotions
- Dupes
- Expendable chessmen
- Half a board game set
- Second rank occupants
- Potential queens
- Little pieces on a chessboard
- Sells back
- Minor chessmen
- Chessmen
- Hand partners pieces on board
- In hand, bridge partners spot queens, potentially
- Men pushed on board
- Sets up loan to exchange (set up around completion of transaction)
- They may be promoted
- Puppets making pledges
- They're the front line of defense, in chess
- Men who could be queens?
- Men in game who are easily manipulated
- Half the chessmen
- Men on board to handle poles
- Sixteen on a board
- Chess pieces usually moved first
- They can never become kings
- They may become queens
- Moveable men
- Second-row chess pieces
- Half the pieces in a chess set
- Little men pushed to the fore
- Chess pieces that can get promoted
- Small game pieces
- Pieces that are typically sacrificed in gambits
- Subjects of some promotions
- En passant pieces
- Front row at a chess tournament?
- Chess pieces that are often moved first
- Much of a chess set
Last Seen In
- Your Life Choices - November 27, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - September 02, 2025
- USA Today - November 20, 2024
- LA Times - November 07, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - October 29, 2024
- Your Life Choices - October 12, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - September 07, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - September 03, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - September 02, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - July 10, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - July 02, 2024
- Your Life Choices - May 22, 2024
- LA Times - December 11, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 09, 2023
- Your Life Choices - October 06, 2023
- Mindfood Daily - September 08, 2023
- Mindfood Daily - August 23, 2023
- New York Times - June 20, 2023
- LA Times - May 27, 2023
- Mindfood Daily - November 30, 2022
- Your Life Choices - November 23, 2022
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - October 17, 2022
- New Zealand Herald - October 12, 2022
- LA Times - October 03, 2022
- Daily Cryptic - September 07, 2022
- Evening Standard Easy - September 06, 2022
- New York Times - August 28, 2022
- Penny Dell Sunday - July 31, 2022
- New York Times - May 23, 2022
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - January 16, 2018
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