| KINGOFTHECASTLE | Regularly, man's captured by pieces in chess game |
| QUEENS | Most powerful pieces in chess games (6) |
| PAWN | A piece in chess game of little worth |
| BRIT | One of us has rook captured by piece (4) |
| INTHEEND | Mean man's captured eventually (2,3,3) |
| TOPOFTHEPOPS | Regularly, man bursts on to peak programme (3,2,3,4) |
| TITLE | Type of square covered by piece in Scrabble championship |
| POWER | Man captured by queen in control |
| ASHEN | Man captured by US security agents turned very pale (5) |
| SHEIKH | Arab chief needs the man captured by a believer |
| OLGA | The giant Sikorsky helicopter, which topped #244-Down with its antenna piece-by-piece in March of 1975 |
| KNIGHTSBRIDGE | Participants in chess game in central London area (13) |
| KNIGHTS | Pieces in chess that move in an L-shape (7) |
| APART | Works by Van Gogh? Old Man captured in pieces |
| ENIGMATIC | Obscure opening in chess game - it, I suspect must involve knight (9) |
| MOVE | Get going for your turn in chess game |
| BISHOP | Participant in chess game's blunder over pawn |
| ATTACKS | Threats to capture an opponent's pieces in chess; or, offensive moves in fencing, cycling, rugby, hockey and other sports (7) |
| ROOKS | Castle-shaped pieces in chess |
| KRIEGSPIEL | King's rook that is key, taking second pawn that is left in chess game |
