JA-NEW-ARY! PUZZLE #266: Chess Words

JA-NEW-ARY!

PUZZLE #266

CHESS WORDS

Okay, including this puzzle type for this theme month might be considered cheating, considering that I had already made a "Chess Words" puzzle as a Patreon-exclusive, but I did say that every puzzle slated to be posted this month will be all-new to this blog, so I'm gonna abuse semantics and say it still counts. Now, this is a pretty tough puzzle type in my opinion, so I added some clues to it in order to hopefully make it easier, even if just a little bit. I hope it helps!

Eight 8-letter words are scrambled on the chessboard, all of which are the answers to the provided clues. Each chess piece starts on the first letter of one of the words, and can be moved across the board via standard chess moves to spell the rest of the word. Every square is used exactly once. The chess pieces move as follows:

King: one space in any of the eight directions
Rook: any number of spaces in a horizontal or vertical direction
Bishop: any number of spaces in a diagonal direction
Queen: any number of spaces in any of the eight directions
Knight: two spaces in a horizontal or vertical direction and then one space in a perpendicular direction

Once all the words have been found, pick two of the words and combine them to get the FINAL ANSWER: a common two-word phrase

  Queen's Rook: E _ _ _ _ _ _ _
                a1 
Queen's Knight: P _ _ _ _ _ _ _
                b1 
Queen's Bishop: W _ _ _ _ _ _ _
                c1 
         Queen: G _ _ _ _ _ _ _
                d1 
          King: K _ _ _ _ _ _ _
                e1 
 King's Bishop: S _ _ _ _ _ _ _
                f1 
 King's Knight: M _ _ _ _ _ _ _
                g1 
   King's Rook: D _ _ _ _ _ _ _
                h1

CLUES
• Collegians
• Handy form of theater?
• In a very religious way
• Oscar-winning J. K. Simmons film
• Raccoon relative
• Redheaded X-Men character
• Sports field
• Trade

Once you believe you've figured out the FINAL ANSWER, send it to either redhead64@chartermi.net or itsredhead64@gmail.com (though I'm more likely to check the second one) and I'll put your name on a solvers list once I post the answers in about two weeks. You can also use those email addresses to give me some comments and feedback (or get a hint from me in exchange for a "hint star", more details for that are on the sidebar to the right) or send me the answer to last week's puzzle, if you haven't already figured it out. If you have a printer and want to solve this puzzle on paper, just head below the break for two versions you can print out: a .PNG and a link to a .PDF!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rRwL8Lfv8_QUx-usQfcAMX_jSH89fdbg/view?usp=sharing