What a pawn might become Crossword Clue

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(noun)
1. a female sovereign ruler
2. female cat
(verb)
1. become a queen
2. promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

BECOME (verb)
1. undergo a change or development
2. enhance the appearance of
MIGHT (noun)
1. physical strength

More New Yorker Crossword (2/18/2025) Answers

Across

1. Shepherd’s accessory?

10. Pair on a Canadian nickel

12. Assorted fragments

14. Buggy phase, perhaps

15. Deep sleep

16. Gradations of color

18. Cell service, so to speak

19. Classic talent competition with categories including Spokesmodel and Vocal Group

23. Porter, e.g.

24. Old Hollywood It Girl ___ Bow

25. Baseball card brand

27. Lost fur or feathers

28. Metric units of mass (Abbr.)

31. “That’s rich!”

32. “___ check” (“Here’s what I’m wearing,” on TikTok)

33. Farm enclosure

34. Words before “don’t cry,” maybe

36. Thorny plant

38. Bought

39. Certain sib

40. Palindromic pharmaceutical

44. Creatures that can move their eyes independently of each other

47. Document or image, for example

48. “Babooshka” singer Bush

49. Slow tempo

50. Spot in the Super Bowl, e.g.

51. Personal reflections often shared on social media?

54. Drug kingpin played by Al Pacino in a 1983 film

55. Feature of a tearjerker, often

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Down

1. Material for building a table?

2. Word with photo or special

3. Flute, e.g.

4. Tomb or monument for someone buried elsewhere

5. Friends who go way back

6. Historian Jill who wrote “These Truths”

7. Villains’ dens

8. Manhattan’s Fifth or Sixth, but not Fifteenth or Sixteenth: Abbr.

9. Space with game tables, perhaps

10. Bishop’s headdress

11. “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte” and “Bathers at Asnières,” for two

12. Boyfriend

13. "It's a ___!'"

14. Back-yard shindig, briefly

17. Like a tree-lined path

20. Fine for emissions, say

22. Zero chance

26. Something shaken in a trick

27. Nintendo avatar

28. Special talent

29. Wayne’s world?

30. Worry

32. User-facing, in programming

35. Once and quince, e.g.

36. Harmonica player in “Once Upon a Time in the West”

37. Using rapid transit?

39. “I’ll take another Bud”

41. Skin-care company with a circular blue logo

42. Quaint cry of regret

43. Marked, as a survey answer

45. Christopher who played Doc Brown in “Back to the Future”

46. Conductor Georg

52. Messenger ___ (kind of molecule in some modern vaccines)

53. Ceiling spinner

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