| Rating | Solver | Clue |
|---|---|---|
| RESIGNATION | Abdication | |
| ABDICATIVE | Causing, or implying, abdication. | |
| EDWARD | Abdication monarch, King ... VIII | |
| INTERREGNUM | The time during which a throne is vacant between the death or abdication of a sovereign and the accession of his successor. | |
| JACOBITE | A partisan or adherent of James the Second, after his abdication, or of his descendants, an opposer of the revolution in 1688 in favor of William and Mary. | |
| COMMONWEALTH | Specifically, the form of government established on the death of Charles I., in 1649, which existed under Oliver Cromwell and his son Richard, ending with the abdication of the latter in 1659. | |
| ABDICATION | ... office, dignity, or trust, by its holder; commonly the voluntary renunciation of sovereign power; as, abdication of the throne, government, ... | |