MATING

Winning chess matches

• The ___ Game (1959 Tony Randall movie)

• Checking out?

• Endgame aim

• Kind of call

• Pairing

• Subject of some animal kingdom rituals

• Type of ritual

• Uniting in marriage

• Place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game

• Copulate, of animals

• In a game of chess

• Make love

• The act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes

• Bring two objects, ideas, or people together