- KING
- Director of "One Night in Miami..."
- Author of 14A
- Double-decker checker
- Board member?
- You're epic!
- Chess piece
- Checkerboard piece
- In the Hall of the Mountain ___
- Numero uno
- Card
- Hotel room option
- Back-row piece
- Double checker
- January honoree
- Nickname for Elvis
- Lear or Midas
- Checkmate capture
- Chess piece that starts on its opposite color square
- Crowned checker
- Checker double-decker
- Lear or Tut
- Nickname for Elvis, with "The" (and what has been dropped from 17-, 30-, 48-, and 66-Across)
- Piece involved in castling
- Love is the key to the solution of the problems of the world. (1964)
- Card below an ace
- CNN regular
- Wenceslaus, e.g.
- Big cheese
- Checkmate victim
- Monarch
- Checkers goal
- Ruler on a throne
- Big man on a board
- Goal in checkers
- See 33-Across
- Certain monarch
- High card
- Powerful pair of checkers
- Queen's spouse
- 46-Down, for one
- Mattress choice
- Royal flush card
- 44-Across VIP
- Double-decker game piece
- Mattress option
- Ghastly gargantuan gorilla
- ---
- Charles III, e.g.
- Misery writer
- Juan Carlos, for one
- B.B. of blues
- Powerful checkers piece
- Reign man
- Saul of Israel, e.g.
- Princess' dad
- Top banana
- Hereditary ruler
- Card below ace
- One on a throne
- Large bed size
- Powerful checker
- Royal ruler
- Tallest chess piece
- Bed size
- Mattress size
- Second-highest poker card
- Highest face card
- Male monarch
- Charles III's title
- Preeminence personified
- Six-time singles champion at Wimbledon
- I Have a Dream speechmaker
- Man in a suit?
- Canadian Prime Minister.
- Prime Minister of Canada.
- Chief of Naval Operations.
- U. S. Chief of Naval Operations.
- U. S. N. chief.
- George VI.
- Head of the committee investigating tax frauds.
- Yul Brynner's role.
- Director Vidor.
- Baudouin.
- Paul of Greece.
- Cotton or Cole.
- Chief in size, importance, etc.
- Oversized cigarette.
- Chief (in size).
- Martin Luther ___.
- Peace prize winner, 1964.
- Title declined by Washington, 1782.
- Well-known name in civil rights.
- Honor card.
- Cobra or crab
- Ruler
- Lear or Kong
- Lear or Cole
- Number one
- Gerald Ford's original name
- Kind of cobra or crab
- Gargantua, e.g.
- President Ford's original surname
- Six-time Wimbledon champ
- Alan or Peggy
- Kind of crab
- Deck dynast
- Nighttime interviewer
- His birthday is Jan. 15
- 1/17/94 honoree
- Stride Toward Freedom author
- Alan, Larryor Stephen
- With 17-Across, Shakespeare tragedy
- Kind of snake or crab
- Bed choice
- Picture card
- With 2-Down, a famous stage father
- Hopper around a board
- Word before snake or crab
- It may be checked
- Piece moved in castling
- Queen's mate
- Cowboy, in poker slang
- Bed selection
- Checker after reaching the other side of the board
- Leader memorialized by the Stone of Hope statue near the National Mall
- Piece between a bishop and a queen
- With 115-Across, [gorilla] [woman] [building]
- Checker that makes it to the other side of the board
- Contested title on "Game of Thrones"
- It's worth zero in baccarat
- ___ me! (checkers cry)
- Civil rights pioneer divided at the beginning and end of nine answers in this puzzle
- Look at Me Now singer Emily
- Elvis' title?
- Sensitive Artist group ___ Missile
- American who won the Nobel Peace Prize, 1964
- CNN host
- See 1 across
- Holiday honoree
- Last name in horror
- Fischer's target
- Word with crab or cobra
- Card in a royal flush
- Checkers double-decker
- Celebrated person in January
- Checker that's a double-decker
- Double-high checker
- Member of royalty
- Chess piece used for castling
- Large mattress size
- ___ Valkyrie (MCU role for Tessa Thompson)
- Comic Alan
- Cujo author
- 1975 Wimbledon winner
- Olav of Norway
- Crab or cobra lead-in
- Chessman
- Honors card
- Male sovereign
- Midas, for one
- Checkmate target
- Title for Arthur or James
- January holiday honoree
- Juan Carlos of Spain, for one
- Selma role
- Coretta Scott ___
- Piece that gets checkmated
- Who delivered the speech "When Peace Becomes Obnoxious"
- ___ Princess (singer of the queer anthem "1950")
- Billie Jean ___ (tennis icon)
- The "K" of MLK
- Albania's Zog, e.g.
- Scepter wielder
- It may take a check
- I have a dream speaker
- Victim of a check
- Face in a hand
- Piece with a cross
- Wenceslas, e.g.
- Part of BK
- One with many potential mates
