| Rating | Solver | Clue |
|---|---|---|
| DEPOSE | Remove from high office | |
| OUST | Remove from office | |
| DEPOSES | Removes from high office | |
| DECAPITATE | To remove summarily from office. | |
| DISPLACE | To remove from a state, office, dignity, or employment; to discharge; to depose; as, to displace an officer of the revenue. | |
| DISMISS | To discard; to remove or discharge from office, service, or employment; as, the king dismisses his ministers; the matter dismisses his servant. | |
| ABDICATE | To surrender or relinquish, as sovereign power; to withdraw definitely from filling or exercising, as a high office, station, dignity; as, to abdicate the throne, the crown, the papacy. | |