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See pawn and a bishop boxed in with nowhere to move (5-1-5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

chock-a-block

'with nowhere to move' is the definition.
(as in chock-a-block traffic)

'see pawn and a bishop boxed in' is the wordplay.
'see' becomes 'clock' (clock can mean to see or notice).
'pawn' becomes 'hock' (hock can mean to pawn an item at a pawnbroker's).
'and' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'bishop' becomes 'B' (chess abbreviation).
'boxed in' is an insertion indicator (inserted letters get boxed in).
'hock'+'a'+'b'='hockab'
'clock' enclosing 'hockab' is 'CHOCK-A-BLOCK'.

(Other definitions for chock-a-block that I've seen before include "Jam-packed" , "Filled to capacity" , "Totally full" , "Jammed in" , "Quite full" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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