Chess question in the crossword today! Cake for whoever gets it

Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle: Small building wing / TUE 6-21-22 / Muscle worked by kettlebell swing informally / Ninja turtle hangout / Self-description for many an expert hobbyist /

Pretending to a chess player without learning a single rule of the game. All for the 'gram! : r/chessmemes

Sunday, 5/20/12 Diary of a Crossword Fiend

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Schiller work adapted by Beeethoven / WED 8-23-17 / Penny memory follower / First name in stunt cycling / Escape tool secreted in cakes in cartoons / Urban Dictionary fodder - Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle

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Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle: ___ regni / SUN 4-5-15 / Home of Faa'a International Airport / Ayatollah's speech / Point of sharpest vision / Schlemiels / Burns's To a Louse / Sony video recorder

The Not-So-Great Defector Bake Off Grimly Marches Through Pâtisserie Week

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enigmatic puzzle - Crossword: My favourite puzzlers - Puzzling Stack Exchange

Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle: Honshu city devastated by 2011 tsunami / SUN 11-18-12 / Summer ermine / Tentacled Spider-Man meanie / Department north of Paris / Deposer of Milton