| CHESS | Game involving rooks and bishops |
| CHESSBOARD | Where bishops, rooks, and knights roam |
| PURPLE | Associated with royalty and bishops, colour of the flowers lavender, lilac and violet and also anthocyanin-rich fruits including aubergine, acai and cherry (6) |
| DODO | Two rooks and another bird (4) |
| CONSIDER | Study rooks and queen covering incomplete theory (8) |
| CORVIDAE | Family to which crows, rooks and jackdaws belong (8) |
| MEN | Rooks and pawns |
| CHESSPIECES | Rooks and pawns, etc |
| CHESSSET | Game with kings, queens and bishops (5,3) |
| CROW | Name of a family of birds that includes jays, magpies, rooks and ravens (4) |
| CONSTABLE | He is experienced to go after rooks and thieves primarily (9) |
| ODDMENT | Scrap books theologian and bishops, say, are found in |
| CHESSMEN | Pawns and bishops, for example |
| CROOKS | Criminals and bishops' staves (6) |
| RABBLE | Gunners and bishops with the French mob (6) |
| CAROM | Cannon and Bishops flee from car bomb (5) |
| SHISHKEBAB | Masquerading sheikhs and bishops enthralling a dish (5,5) |
| AVIAN | Like some cardinals and bishops |
| HOUSEOFLORDS | Known to MPs as the "other place", the second chamber of Parliament, composed of peers and bishops ( |
| MITER | Headdress worn by the Pope and bishops as mark of office |
