Crossword-Solution: PAWNS 5 letters, 87 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

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PAWNS anagram SPAWN

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Lowly chess pieces 1 answer
Pieces that are typically sacrificed in gambits 1 answer
People used by others 1 answer
Most of a chess set 1 answer
Minor pieces for Fischer 1 answer
Minor chesspieces 1 answer
Men who could be queens? 1 answer
Men on the front line? 1 answer
Members of a chess line 1 answer
Lowly pieces 1 answer
Pieces that make up half of a chess set 1 answer
Lowest-value chess pieces 1 answer
Lowest value chess pieces 1 answer
Low-value chess pieces 1 answer
Little men in the front row 1 answer
Leaves in hock 1 answer
King's soldiers 1 answer
Kasparov's soldiers 1 answer
Karpov's octet 1 answer
Half the pieces in a chess set 1 answer
Small game pieces 1 answer
Unwitting tools 1 answer
They're often sacrificed in gambits 1 answer
They may become queens 1 answer
They may be promoted 1 answer
They can never become kings 1 answer
They can be taken en passant 1 answer
They can be captured en passant 1 answer
Subjects of some promotions 1 answer
Some of them become queens 1 answer
Impignorates 1 answer
Sixteen on a board 1 answer
Sixteen of a chess set's pieces 1 answer
Second-row chess pieces 1 answer
Second rank occupants 1 answer
Sacrificial sorts 1 answer
Recipients of some promotions 1 answer
Puts in hock 1 answer
Promoted members of the board? 1 answer
Potential queens 1 answer
Front line in a game 1 answer
Board members of a sort 1 answer
Chess openers 1 answer
Chess pieces often moved first 1 answer
Chess pieces that are often moved first 1 answer
Chess pieces that can get promoted 1 answer
Chess pieces usually moved first 1 answer
Chess player's octet 1 answer
Half the chessmen 1 answer
Chess row 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEERA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PAWNS (5)

Flavia, myself--ay, and the real King in Zenda, were pieces in his game; and pawns have no business with passions.
The Prisoner of Zenda Anthony Hope 1993
Swancourt with feeling, bringing down his hand upon the table, and making three pawns and a knight dance over their borders by the shaking.
A Pair of Blue Eyes Thomas Hardy 1995
Even among the baby's books and playthings these days might be found a “Manual of Chess,” for Billy pursued her study at all hours; and some nights even her dreams were of ruined, castles where kings and queens and bishops disported themselves, with pawns for servants, and where a weird knight on horseback used the castle's highest tower for a hurdle, landing always a hundred yards to one side of where he would be expected to come down.
Miss Billy Married Eleanor H. Porter 2008
Society is a vast chess-board, men the pawns, some white, some black; I move them as I please, and break them when they bore me." The early years of Jeanne de la Cour's career as a Phryne were hardly more successful than her attempts at literature, acting and journalism.
A Book of Remarkable Criminals H. B. Irving 1996
The "man" that plays beyond his income pawns his estate; the "woman" must find out something else to mortgage when her pin-money is gone.
The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims Andrew Steinmetz 1996

Quotes with PAWNS (3)

On the path to Conquer the throne, some of your pawns must die... If your eyes aim the big kill, you must learn to eat humble pie.
Aamir Sarfraz
In fighting those who serve devils one always his this on one's side; their Masters hate them as much as they hate us. The moment we disable the human pawns enough to make them useless to Hell, their own Masters finish the work for us. they break their tools.
C. S. Lewis That Hideous Strength
What he realised, and more clearly as time went on, was that money-worship has been elevated into a religion. Perhaps it is the only real religion-the only felt religion-that is left to us. Money is what God used to be. Good and evil have no meaning any longer except failure and success. Hence the profoundly significant phrase, to make good. The decalogue has been reduced to two commandments. One for the employers-the elect, the money priesthood as it were- 'Thou shalt make m…
George Orwell Keep the Aspidistra Flying
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYM, NY Sun, NYT, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 109 times in crossword archives (1947–2025).