Answer: KING
KING is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 125 times.
Referring Clues:
- Kind of snake or crab
 - Picture card
 - Bed choice
 - "I have a dream" speaker
 - With 2-Down, a famous stage father
 - Double-decker checker
 - Double checker
 - Hopper around a board
 - Word before snake or crab
 - It may be checked
 - Queen's mate
 - Piece moved in castling
 - Nickname for Elvis
 - Chess piece
 - Lear or Midas
 - Checkmate capture
 - Crowned checker
 - Chess piece that starts on its opposite color square
 - "I Have a Dream" speechmaker
 - Double checker?
 - Big man on a board
 - Princess' dad
 - Top banana
 - Hereditary ruler
 - Card below ace
 - Card in a royal flush
 - Tallest chess piece
 - Midas, for one
 - Male sovereign
 - Holiday honoree
 - Word with crab or cobra
 - Rex
 - Checker double-decker
 - January honoree
 - Dreamer of freedom
 - "A right delayed is a right denied" speaker
 - Our longest serving PM
 - Author of today's quote
 - Great Canadian wartime Prime Minister
 - Southern Ontario community
 - One on a throne
 - Goal in checkers
 - Spooky Stephen
 - Spooky Stephen
 - Checkmate target
 - See 33-Across
 - Certain monarch
 - Throne occupant
 - Monarch
 - See 58-Across
 - Longtime CNN interviewer
 - Stephen or Larry
 - CNN interviewer
 - Interviewer Larry
 - CNN's Larry
 - Kasparov's concern
 - High card
 - Civil rights pioneer divided at the beginning and end of nine answers in this puzzle
 - Royal ruler
 - Sergeant Preston's dog
 - Large bed size
 - Powerful checker
 - Powerful pair of checkers
 - Nickname for Elvis, with "The" (and what has been dropped from 17-, 30-, 48-, and 66-Across)
 - Wears a crown
 - Hotel room option
 - Canada's longest serving Prime Minister
 - Victim of a check
 - Queen's spouse
 - Lear or Tut
 - Title for Arthur or James
 - Major chess piece
 - MacKenzie or Dave
 - Elvis' title
 - Checkmate victim
 - Checkers double-decker
 - Piece involved in castling
 - Wenceslaus, e.g.
 - Celebrated person in January
 - 46-Down, for one
 - Royal flush card
 - Bed size
 - Mattress choice
 - Cowboy, in poker slang
 - Juan Carlos of Spain, for one
 - Mackenzie ____ Clancy
 - Chess piece or British Columbia island
 - Dave ___ Clancy
 - Juan Carlos, for one
 - "Selma" role
 - Checker that's a double-decker
 - Two-checker piece
 - "Cujo" author
 - "Selma" lead role
 - Double-high checker
 - Mattress size
 - 44-Across VIP
 - Mattress option
 - Wind at My Back star Charmione ____
 - Board member?
 - Double-decker game piece
 - "Stride Toward Freedom" author
 - Member of royalty
 - Bed selection
 - Second-highest poker card
 - Ghastly gargantuan gorilla
 - ___
 - Highest face card
 - Checker after reaching the other side of the board
 - "...balak the ___ of moab hath brought me from aram..." (num. 23:7)
 - Piece between a bishop and a queen
 - With 115-Across, [gorilla] [woman] [building]
 - Male monarch
 - Leader memorialized by the Stone of Hope statue near the National Mall
 - Coretta Scott ___
 - ___ Princess (singer of the queer anthem "1950")
 - Who delivered the speech "When Peace Becomes Obnoxious"
 - Chess piece used for castling
 - Checker that makes it to the other side of the board
 - It's worth zero in baccarat
 - Contested title on "Game of Thrones"
 - "___ me!" (checkers cry)
 - Piece that gets checkmated
 - Billie Jean ___ (tennis icon)
 - Charles III, e.g.
 
Last Seen In:
- New York Times - April 29, 2025
 - LA Times - August 22, 2024
 - USA Today - May 30, 2024
 - USA Today - April 04, 2024
 - USA Today - November 08, 2023
 - New York Times - February 15, 2023
 - New York Times - November 30, 2022
 - New York Times - March 09, 2022
 - New York Times - May 11, 2021
 - Universal - March 15, 2021
 - USA Today - December 31, 2020
 - USA Today - September 28, 2020
 - USA Today - September 02, 2020
 - New York Times - July 24, 2020
 - Netword - April 27, 2020
 - USA Today - April 09, 2020
 - New York Times - February 09, 2020
 - LA Times - February 06, 2020
 - New York Times - February 03, 2020
 - New York Times - October 28, 2019
 
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