| Rating | Solver | Clue |
|---|---|---|
| TYRANNICAL | Despotic | |
| DICTATORS | Despotic rulers | |
| SATRAP | Despotic ruler | |
| TYRANT | Despotic ruler | |
| ARBITRARIOUS | Arbitrary; despotic. | |
| TYRANNOUS | Tyrannical; arbitrary; unjustly severe; despotic. | |
| GOD | Figuratively applied to one who wields great or despotic power. | |
| ABSOLUTIST | Of or pertaining to absolutism; arbitrary; despotic; as, absolutist principles. | |
| DESPOTISM | A government which is directed by a despot; a despotic monarchy; absolutism; autocracy. | |
| ARBITRARY | Despotic; absolute in power; bound by no law; harsh and unforbearing; tyrannical; as, an arbitrary prince or government. | |
| LORD | To play the lord; to domineer; to rule with arbitrary or despotic sway; -- sometimes with over; and sometimes with it in the manner of a transitive verb. | |
| FREE | Not arbitrary or despotic; assuring liberty; defending individual rights against encroachment by any person or class; instituted by a free peop... | |
| SUBVERSION | ...overturned; entire overthrow; an overthrow from the foundation; utter ruin; destruction; as, the subversion of a government; the subversion of d... | |
| HOBBISM | ...lish materialist (1588-1679); esp., his political theory that the most perfect form of civil government is an absolute monarchy with despotic ... | |
| TYRANNY | ...y governed by an absolute ruler; hence, arbitrary or despotic exercise of power; exercise of power over subjects and others with a rigor not ... | |