Chess pieces
Else clues• Board members of a sort
• Chess openers
• 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
• They're often sacrificed in gambits
• Tools
• Unwitting tools