Crossword-Solution: SKIPWORTH 9 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 21

Skipworth ought not to be forgotten; he is, when free from his official duties, quite formidable as an adversary, and is ever ready and willing to test conclusions with the best of players.

Skipworth, who should be an authority on the subject, professional chess players are not supposed to dine at all, but our great friend, the genial Mars, dissents from this view.

Staunton, Boden, Steinitz, Mars and Skipworth himself are essentially diners, and Bird has been accused of a tendency that way.

Doncaster, a dunce--Stratford, a miser--Coleman, a knave--Naresby, non compos--Skreene, the most corrupt of the corrupt--Twisselton, puzzle headed--Waltham, a mere theorist--Wrexfield, a speechifier--Chelsea, a trimmer--Lancaster, deep and dark--Sir Thomas Cope, a wit, a poet, and a fool--Sir James Skipworth, finance and finesse--Arnold, able and active--and Oldfield, a diplomatist in grain.

Percy found the initials of six persons, who stood high in Lord Oldborough’s scale of probabilities: Chelsea--Arnold--Skreene--Skipworth--Oldfield--Coleman; and the last k, for which he hunted in vain a considerable time, was supplied by Kensington (one of the Duke of Greenwich’s titles), whose name had been scratched out of the list, since his reconciliation and connexion by marriage with Lord Oldborough, but who had certainly at one time been of the league of his lordship’s enemies.