Word "USURPER" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
one who wrongfully or illegally seizes and holds the place of another
Synonyms:
supplanter

Crossword Clues for USURPER

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Person who takes power by force (7) Puzzler 19 Aug 2025
He seizes power from pursuer (7)
Loan-shark investing pence for Putin?
He has no right to take another's place (7)
Header from Rooney inspired by United great one assumes (7) The Guardian Cryptic 25 Apr 2025
Agitated pursuer of regal status (7)
Expropriator (7)
He takes over quietly when the moneylender's around (7)
Person who seizes power without authority (7)
One had no right to have taken the purse in here (7)
One who's made a pretence a reality, apparently! (7)
One who takes a position of power illegally or by force (7)
One illicitly seizing power The Times Concise 12 Nov 2024
Apparently he's made his pretence a reality! (7)
Soft-hearted moneylender has taken somebody else's place (7)
One who seizes power from frantic pursuer (7)
Wild pursuer of royal dreams? (7)
One who overthrows (7)
One who seizes illegally (7)
Coup organiser
Person who seizes power illegally
You, they say, certain to grab power and rule as king without right for instance (7)
Seizer of power taken in by loan shark The Times Cryptic 29 Jun 2024
Wrongful leader
Person who wrests power
Unlawful dictator (7) Puzzler 07 May 2024
Unlawful claimant to power (7)
Soft-hearted moneylender takes another's place (7)
Pursuer murdered one who takes over without authority (7)
You are looking for your purse? He has taken it wrongfully (7)
Madly pursue king for one seizing the throne
Person who unlawfully seizes another's position or authority (7)
One seizing power The Times Concise 28 Oct 2022
Penny Shylock's taken -- by force, I assume The Telegraph Toughie 20 May 2022
Mum's curry -- poetry on occasion, one assumes! The Telegraph Cryptic 07 May 2021
He generates huge interest seizing power — Richard III?
One wrongfully seizes power from another Irish Times Simplex 11 May 2020
One wrongly claiming loan shark hides money
Loan shark invests pence for despot The Sun Two Speed 26 Mar 2019
Power-snatcher The Sun Two Speed 26 Mar 2019
Throne seizer Universal 20 Feb 2019
Throne seizer
Power grabber LA Times Daily 02 Sep 2018
Power grabber The Washington Post 02 Sep 2018
Almost certain to exercise in old city by forcing others to go out Irish Times Crosaire 26 May 2018
Richard III or Henry VII, e.g The New Yorker 30 Apr 2018
Power grabber
Quietly stops one taking excessive interest in trespasser
One taking interest stealing power? The Telegraph Toughie 15 Dec 2016
Soft-hearted moneylender who enters office uninvited The Telegraph Cryptic 01 Feb 2016
He dispossesses loan shark without a penny The Telegraph Toughie 30 Sep 2015
One seizing power The Times Concise 02 Jun 2015
Criminal seizing power in America and Peru possibly? Right The Telegraph Cryptic 12 May 2015
Pretender — he advances ruthlessly and keeps quiet
One taking something forcibly
Throne grabber
Throne grabber
Successful rebel
One in a coup group
One in a coup group
One in a coup, e.g.
Coup leader
Takeover artist
One who seizes power
Power grabber
Coup participant, e.g.
One who takes over by force
One who expropriates
Coup d'état victor
Seizer like Caesar
Throne seizer
Illegal occupant of a throne.
Seizer of power.
Unlawful seizer.
Royal supplanter.
Unlawful seizor.
Illegal seizer.
Displacer of true ruler.
Executer of coup d'état.
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