| PERKINS | Host of Chess Masters: The Endgame (3,7) |
| SUE | Host of Chess Masters: The Endgame (3,7) |
| CHESS | New BBC2 show with Sue Perkins, ___ Masters: The Endgame (5) |
| SPOONRIVER | Masters' "The ___ Anthology" |
| CAPABLANCA | Jose Raul, Cuban chess master (10) |
| CHECKMATE | It's the end of the endgame (9) |
| TEACHERS | Masters the conversion of hectares |
| STREAMS | How one masters the movement of running water (7) |
| BUTTONSUP | Masters the art of keeping silent? (7,2) |
| NOSED | Slowly moved forward and backward, so entering the endgame (5) |
| ACES | Regularly sacrificing pieces, as chess masters (4) |
| COUPLES | Golfer who was world No.1 in 1992, winning the US Masters the same year, his only major title (7) |
| TRAXLER | Karel , Czech chess master and composer of chess problems (7) |
| HEHASNOGOODOPENINGS | Brush-off from a struggling chess master's secretary? |
| MATE | Chess master's triumphant cry |
| PLEINAIRISTS | French term for outdoorsy artists who abandon the confines of studio walls to master the alfresco atmosphere, natural light and wild palette (5-7) |
| STAUNTON | Standardised pattern of chess pieces, named after a 19th-century English chess master |
| MORSECODE | Telegraph staff needed to master the long and short of it |
| MADAME | Nice wife of master - the eldest relative from Foundation (6) |
| SKIPPER | Master the last of skills needed with fish (7) |
