| Person who takes power by force (7) |
Puzzler |
19 Aug 2025 |
| He seizes power from pursuer (7) |
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| Loan-shark investing pence for Putin? |
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| He has no right to take another's place (7) |
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| Header from Rooney inspired by United great one assumes (7) |
The Guardian Cryptic |
25 Apr 2025 |
| Agitated pursuer of regal status (7) |
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| Expropriator (7) |
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| He takes over quietly when the moneylender's around (7) |
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| Person who seizes power without authority (7) |
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| One had no right to have taken the purse in here (7) |
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| One who's made a pretence a reality, apparently! (7) |
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| One who takes a position of power illegally or by force (7) |
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| One illicitly seizing power |
The Times Concise |
12 Nov 2024 |
| Apparently he's made his pretence a reality! (7) |
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| Soft-hearted moneylender has taken somebody else's place (7) |
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| One who seizes power from frantic pursuer (7) |
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| Wild pursuer of royal dreams? (7) |
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| One who overthrows (7) |
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| One who seizes illegally (7) |
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| Coup organiser |
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| Person who seizes power illegally |
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| You, they say, certain to grab power and rule as king without right for instance (7) |
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| Seizer of power taken in by loan shark |
The Times Cryptic |
29 Jun 2024 |
| Wrongful leader |
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| Person who wrests power |
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| Unlawful dictator (7) |
Puzzler |
07 May 2024 |
| Unlawful claimant to power (7) |
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| Soft-hearted moneylender takes another's place (7) |
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| Pursuer murdered one who takes over without authority (7) |
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| You are looking for your purse? He has taken it wrongfully (7) |
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| Madly pursue king for one seizing the throne |
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| Person who unlawfully seizes another's position or authority (7) |
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| 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? |
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| One wrongfully seizes power from another |
Irish Times Simplex |
11 May 2020 |
| One wrongly claiming loan shark hides money |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Quietly stops one taking excessive interest in trespasser |
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| 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 |
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| One taking something forcibly |
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| Throne grabber |
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| Throne grabber |
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| Successful rebel |
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| One in a coup group |
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| One in a coup group |
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| One in a coup, e.g. |
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| Coup leader |
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| Takeover artist |
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| One who seizes power |
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| Power grabber |
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| Coup participant, e.g. |
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| One who takes over by force |
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| One who expropriates |
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| Coup d'état victor |
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| Seizer like Caesar |
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| Throne seizer |
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| Illegal occupant of a throne. |
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| Seizer of power. |
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| Unlawful seizer. |
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| Royal supplanter. |
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| Unlawful seizor. |
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| Illegal seizer. |
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| Displacer of true ruler. |
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| Executer of coup d'état. |
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