| Period lacking a horrible inadequate ruler (6) |
The Guardian Cryptic |
07 Nov 2025 |
| King or queen |
LA Times Daily |
02 Nov 2025 |
| Ruler |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
16 Sep 2025 |
| Heartless devilry by most vicious hereditary ruler (6) |
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| Ruler of those nasty 500 Romans (6) |
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| Democrat replacing nasty hereditary ruler (6) |
The Guardian Cryptic |
20 May 2024 |
| One who rules over endless TV serial! (6) |
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| Hereditary ruler |
The Washington Post |
21 May 2021 |
| Hereditary ruler |
LA Times Daily |
21 May 2021 |
| Member of a ruling family |
Premier Sunday |
31 Jan 2021 |
| Ruling family |
Eugene Sheffer |
24 Oct 2020 |
| Ruler from a tree |
Newsday |
07 Dec 2019 |
| King or czar |
Premier Sunday |
29 Sep 2019 |
| Ruler already nasty, to an extent |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
20 Aug 2019 |
| Sovereign |
The Washington Post |
15 Jun 2019 |
| Sovereign |
LA Times Daily |
15 Jun 2019 |
| Ancestral ruler |
New York Times |
16 Apr 2019 |
| Hereditary ruler |
New York Times |
30 Mar 2019 |
| Sovereign |
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| Hereditary ruler |
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| Ancestral ruler |
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| Hereditary ruler |
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| Day to depose a not entirely horrible ruler |
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| Some 'daddy', nasty sort of ruler |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
19 Jan 2018 |
| Hereditary ruler |
Universal |
13 Dec 2017 |
| Queen, e.g |
Premier Sunday |
05 Nov 2017 |
| Sovereign |
Eugene Sheffer |
21 Oct 2017 |
| Hereditary ruler |
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| Kim Jong-un, for one |
New York Times |
19 Aug 2016 |
| Kim Jong-un, for one |
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| Stand by for dancing bishop having come out as family member |
The Telegraph Toughie |
25 Dec 2015 |
| King who succeeds his father, say |
LA Times Daily |
20 Dec 2015 |
| Hereditary ruler |
The Telegraph Quick |
21 Feb 2015 |
| King who succeeds his father, say |
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| Hereditary ruler |
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| Hereditary ruler |
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| Sovereign |
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| One in a powerful house |
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| Ruler by heredity |
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| Ruler by heredity |
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| King or shah |
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| Ruler by birth |
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| King or queen |
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| Kim Jong-il, for one |
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| Hereditary monarch |
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| Ruler by birth |
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| Potentate |
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| Hereditary ruler |
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| Hereditary ruler |
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| Ruler by heredity |
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| King or queen |
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| Ruler by birth |
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| Czar or shah |
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| George W. Bush, e.g. |
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| Powerful figure |
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| Potentate |
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| Powerful ruler |
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| Sovereign |
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| Ruler |
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| King or czar |
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| Governor or prince. |
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| Founder of a royal house. |
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| Monarch. |
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| Ruler. |
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| Elizabeth I, for one. |
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| Hereditary ruler. |
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