| REYKJAVIK | In 1972, Boris Spassky lost his world chess champion's crown to Bobby Fischer in this city |
| BORIS | Spassky who lost to Bobby Fischer in chess's Match of the Century |
| ERNIETERRELL | Former WBA heavyweight boxing champion who lost his world title to Muhammad Ali in 1967 |
| SPASSKY | Russian grandmaster and world chess champion from 1969 to 1972, Boris ... |
| RUS | Home country of many world chess champions: Abbr. |
| NAOMI | Winner of the women's Junior National Champion crown in 2022, ___ Ruff |
| BOBBYFISCHER | American Grandmaster who beat Boris Spassky in Reykjavik in 1972 to become the 11th World Chess Champion |
| FISCHER | Bobby ---, American chess grandmaster who took the World Chess Championship title from Boris Spassky in 1972 (7) |
| BORISSPASSKY | Who did Bobby Fischer beat to win the World Chess Championship in 1972? (5,7) |
| LIEV | Schreiber who played Boris Spassky in "Pawn Sacrifice" |
| HELSINKI | In which city did Eamonn Coghlan win his World Athletics Championship gold medal? (8) |
| MAGNUSCARLSEN | Norwegian chess grandmaster who successfully defended his world title in December 2021 (6,7) |
| CHECKMATE | Invoking its many chess champions, Russia unveiled its new generation of fighter jet on July 20, named this |
| CHESS | Board game associated with Boris Spassky and Jose Capablanca (5) |
| ANTILOG | 100 is 2's to gain -- with crown to lose out (7) |
| LICENSEE | One's permitted to fabricate new watch without crown to begin with (8) |
| ICELAND | Site for the 1972 Fischer-Spassky World Chess Championship |
| SAL | Losing pitcher to Don in his World Series perfect game |
| ARTHURMARX | American novelist, screenwriter and biographer who lost the 1941 Cincinnati Masters men's singles final to Bobby Riggs |
| JAY | ___ Brown, had his world torn apart by Phil Mitchell's confession in Eastenders (3) |
