PAWNS

They're often sacrificed in gambits

• Board members of a sort

• Chess openers

• Chess pieces

• Chess player's octet

• Chess row

• Chessboard line

• Chessboard pieces

• Deposits as security for money

• Dupes

• Front line in a game

• Future queens, maybe

• Future queens, perhaps

• Future queens?

• Grandmaster's octet

• Half a chess set

• Half the chessmen

• Hocks

• Hocks part of a chess set (5)

• King protectors

• King's soldiers

• Knight protectors

• Leaves in hock

• Little men

• Little men in the front row

• Low-value chess pieces

• Lowest value chess pieces

• Lowly chess pieces

• Lowly pieces

• Members of a chess line

• Men on the front line?

• Minor chess men

• Minor chesspieces

• One row on a chessboard

• Patsies

• Powerless people

• Puppets

• Puts in hock

• Sells back

• Sixteen on a board

• Some chessmen

• They can be taken en passant

• They may become queens

• Tools

• Unwitting tools