Related Clues:

• Serving, give up point and play without purpose
• Play in close match
• Cambridge college deprived of ale backing enquiry initially — where check expected?
• Final phase of the contest
• Aged men prepared for final stage
• Play whose title character doesn't actually appear
• Final and decisive phase
• Women joining cast got gift on radio play
• Aged men stumbling into final stage
• Parisian in grand lady's housing when queens have gone off, maybe?
• Last plays — one of Beckett’s
• Conclusion reached on board -- school of whales is in terrible need
• Final chess match stage
• 1957 Beckett play set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland
• Last phase of play in chess