CHESS PIECES
FIND THE STATE
THE MOST POPULOUS NATION
"HOLD" EVERYTHINGNG
SWA Names 4
ANAGRAMMED COUNTRIES
100

The chess piece that there are the most of

the pawns

100

That there's a state in this clue is a foregone conclusion

Oregon

100

Mexico,
Brazil,
Argentina

Brazil

100

To look upon

to behold

100

These two share the same first name. One's wife had a baby in March. The other shares the same last name with Ray from Everybody Loves Raymond.

Adam Szlachetka and Adam Romano

100

Pains

Spain

200

The 2 chess pieces of which each side has only one

the king & queen

200

The newspaper's sales force prefers you buy a color ad over a black & white one

Colorado

200

Egypt,
Iraq,
Saudi Arabia

Egypt

200

This describes something so common, it's familiar in everyone's home

household

200

Her last name is a compound word: a yelllow spread you might put on toast + a grassy stretch of open land

Karla Butterfield

200

Rain

Iran

300

The piece that shares its name with a job in the Catholic church

the bishop

300

Fidelio was Beethoven's only opera (but has it played in Dubuque?)

Iowa

300

Finland,
Norway,
Sweden

Sweden

300

Something kept on from a previous administration

a holdover

300

She shares the first name with a nineties TV character, "_________, The Teenage Witch"

Sabrina Ramkhelawan

300

Marked N

Denmark

400

The one that shares its name with a crow relative

a rook

400

A temple is nice, but a house is a home

Utah

400

Vatican City,
Monaco,
Andorra

Andorra

400

The point at which a stimulus, such as pain, has an effect

threshold

400

Change one letter in his last name, and you have the word "Miracle" - although the emphAsis is different...

Alex Mirable

400

Panel

Nepal

500

The only piece in the back row that can start a game

a knight

500

When buying pecans from this state I don't know whether to get large or giant-sized containers

Georgia

500

Russia,
Indonesia,
Japan

Indonesia

500

A fortified place of refuge

a stronghold

500

Her last name almost matches the middle word of the title of the U.S. national anthem (except for the last letter...)

Marielle Spangler

500

Nuke Air

Ukraine