| Rating | Solver | Clue |
|---|---|---|
| DESPOT | Autocrat | |
| TYRANT | Autocrat | |
| DICTATOR | Autocrat | |
| TSAR | Romanov autocrat | |
| AUTOCRATOR | An autocrat. | |
| EMPRESS | Female Russian autocrat | |
| AUTOCRATSHIP | The office or dignity of an autocrat. | |
| SATRAP | The governor of a province in ancient Persia; hence, a petty autocrat despot. | |
| AUTOCRACY | Supreme, uncontrolled, unlimited authority, or right of governing in a single person, as of an autocrat. | |
| AUTOCRATICAL | Of or pertaining to autocracy or to an autocrat; absolute; holding independent and arbitrary powers of government. | |
| AUTOCRAT | An absolute sovereign; a monarch who holds and exercises the powers of government by claim of absolute right, not subject to restriction; as, Autocrat of all the Russias (a title of the Czar). | |