Across the Board Monday, October 5, 2026 · By the Crossword Study Team
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across 1 Summaries of what happened 7 Clock-changing practice, briefly 10 Cervical-screening procedure 17 * Chess roster name: ___ Grigoriy 18 * Surname behind a familiar chess rating system 19 Dressed for a medieval battle 20 * Women's world champion ___ Bykova 23 Singer King Cole's first name 24 * Chess roster name: Martinez Alcantara, Jose ___ 25 * Result scored as zero in a chess crosstable 26 * Having few useful squares available, as a chess unit 28 At the lowest temperature 29 Betty of cartoons 30 * World chess champion Emanuel ___ 31 Great Lake bordering Ohio 32 Small island 33 Informal name for a mother 35 Satisfy completely 39 Shakespearean king with three daughters 40 Per item, informally 43 Eons, informally 47 * World chess champion Mikhail ___ 48 Interested in, informally 49 Distance of 5,280 feet 50 * Clock resource exhausted when a chess flag falls 51 Now, in Spanish 53 Purchase ___ of matching dishes 54 * Units that may never legally stand on adjacent squares 55 * Chess roster name: ___ Rosen 56 * Surname of the 2025 World Cup player listed for BAN as Reja 87-Across ___ 57 * Chess roster name: ___ Aldiyar 58 * Second given name of the 2025 World Cup player listed for SRI as 63-Across ___ Liyanage 60 * Common text format for saving chess games, briefly 62 Reply, on an exam key: Abbr. 63 * See 58-Across 68 * Chess roster name: Fawzy, ___ 72 * Chess roster name: ___ Babu M R 75 Reporter Lane of Superman stories 76 * The four units occupying the board's corners at the start 77 * American chess federation's traditional initials 81 East Coast highway stretching from Maine to Florida 82 * Women's world champion ___ Ushenina 83 Earthenware cooking pot 84 Writer Stephenson of Snow Crash 85 Boxing victories that stop the fight, briefly 86 * Chess roster name: Abugenda, ___ 87 * See 56-Across 88 ___ Alto, California 89 Walking tree-like beings in Tolkien 91 * Chess roster name: Nguyen, Thai ___ Van 93 * Chess roster name: Efimov, ___ 94 Cries of sudden understanding 98 * Opening that offers material for a positional or tactical benefit 103 A Doll's House heroine 104 Number of coins produced in a particular issue 107 Actor who played Hawkeye Pierce on television 109 Singer Diamond's first name 110 Across the ocean, in a less common form 111 Almond or walnut 112 Back wheels' rubber coverings 114 * Chess with altered rules, such as bughouse 115 * Equal score atop a chess tournament table 116 Resident of Topeka's state 117 Children, in French 118 S-shaped curve 119 Sport on snowy slopes down 1 Independent presidential candidate in 1992 2 U.S. environmental regulator, briefly 3 Raise a petty objection 4 * Online chess tournament format with continuous pairings 5 Pocket breads 6 Small bite between meals 7 Actor Robert of Taxi Driver 8 * ___ Defense, supporting d5 with ...c6 9 Carry along 10 * A bishop or knight, for example 11 Logical connector allowing either or both 12 Physicist behind the exclusion principle 13 * Exchanges of chess units 14 * Chess roster name: Can, ___ 15 Lays down turf 16 Gait faster than a walk 20 * Chess roster name: ___ Jacques 21 Makes less tight 22 Set apart from others 27 Violent storm 34 * Left with a king in check and no legal escape 36 A great deal, informally 37 Starchy corm used to make poi 38 Stylish enthusiasm 40 * Chess roster name: ___ Bassem 41 * Tactics that restrain a unit shielding a more valuable one 42 * Women's world champion ___ Rubtsova 44 * Chess roster name: ___ Anish 45 Actor Jannings 46 Brief units on a stopwatch, for short 51 * Chess roster name: ___ Hambleton 52 * Chess roster name: Niemann, ___ Moke 54 * Caro-___ Defense 59 Actors who overdo it 60 * Chess roster name: Laohawirapap, ___ 61 Opening in a fence 64 * Chess roster name: Schnaider, ___ 65 * Women's world champion ___ Gaprindashvili 66 * Chess roster name: ___ Liren 67 U.S. foreign-assistance agency established in 1961, briefly 68 * Chess roster name: ___ Levon 69 Hand out, with out 70 * Square that friendly pawns cannot defend 71 * Chess roster name: Salih, ___ Ali Salih 72 * Chess roster name: Mendonca, Leon ___ 73 * Chess roster name: Berdayes ___ Dylan Isidro 74 * Beyond saving with correct play, as a chess position 77 * Freeing a chess unit that was shielding a more valuable one 78 Ocean traveler 79 Unit counted on a nutrition label 80 Flower-patterned fabrics 90 * Chess roster name: Cahaya, ___ Duta 92 Banded varieties of chalcedony 95 Comedian Minhaj 96 Representative who negotiates on another's behalf 97 Places to sit 99 Signs left on a surface 100 Cold and cheerless 101 * Chess roster name: ___ Pouya 102 Ankle regions, anatomically 104 * One player's turn in a chess score 105 * Chess roster name: Saric, ___ 106 Brand of foam sports toys 107 * Chess roster name: Brkic, ___ 108 * Chess roster name: Supi, ___ Paulo 113 * Women's world champion ___ Zhongyi 1 across, Summaries of what happened, 6 letters.
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