| Beating at chess | Premier Sunday | 12 Oct 2025 | 
          
            | The _ Game, 1959 Debbie Reynolds film (6) |  |  | 
          
            | ____ call, a sound made by a bird or other animal to attract a partner (6) |  |  | 
          
            | Defeating in chess | Universal | 04 Jul 2024 | 
          
            | Getting together with another in the end-game (6) |  |  | 
          
            | The call of the chess player in action? (6) |  |  | 
          
            | Finishing game, ready to get engrossed in periodical |  |  | 
          
            | Kind of season where animals court each other |  |  | 
          
            | Capturing a king in chess | Family Time | 25 Oct 2020 | 
          
            | Type of ritual practised before start of congress? |  |  | 
          
            | Purpose of some calls of the wild | Wall Street Journal | 30 May 2020 | 
          
            | Congress assembling, with English pair replaced by American | The Telegraph Toughie | 27 Mar 2020 | 
          
            | Kind of season or call | Wall Street Journal | 10 Oct 2019 | 
          
            | Word with call or ritual | The Washington Post | 09 Jul 2019 | 
          
            | Word with call or ritual | LA Times Daily | 09 Jul 2019 | 
          
            | Kind of season or call |  |  | 
          
            | Word with call or ritual |  |  | 
          
            | Kind of call or season | Jonesin | 27 Nov 2018 | 
          
            | ___ call | The Washington Post Sunday | 17 Dec 2017 | 
          
            | Married giant — disastrous wedding |  |  | 
          
            | Beating at chess | New York Times | 29 May 2017 | 
          
            | Beating at chess |  |  | 
          
            | Word before call or season | USA Today | 01 Nov 2016 | 
          
            | Old Lib Dem leader keeps attending congress |  |  | 
          
            | Endgame action | New York Times | 20 Nov 2015 | 
          
            | Pairing Asiatic tigers, initially protected by a Chinese dynasty |  |  | 
          
            | Means of communication using dots and dashes | New York Times | 12 Feb 2015 | 
          
            | Kind of call |  |  | 
          
            | Endgame action |  |  | 
          
            | Kind of call or season |  |  | 
          
            | Checking conclusively, in chess |  |  | 
          
            | Endgame action |  |  | 
          
            | Subject of some animal kingdom rituals |  |  | 
          
            | Checking out? |  |  | 
          
            | "The ___ Game" (1959 Tony Randall movie) |  |  | 
          
            | Type of ritual |  |  | 
          
            | Winning chess matches |  |  | 
          
            | Uniting in marriage |  |  | 
          
            | Pairing |  |  | 
          
            | Kind of call |  |  | 
          
            | Endgame aim |  |  | 
          
            | "The ___ Season," 1927 play |  |  | 
          
            | Action in a chess match |  |  | 
          
            | Matching. |  |  | 
          
            | "The ___ Game." |  |  | 
          
            | Pairing. |  |  |