Pre-1917 ruler
The crossword clue "Pre-1917 ruler" is answered by TSAR, a 4-letter entry. Used 23 times across 18 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1986. It appears in 12 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
The answer
TSAR
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the TSAR answer page.
Used 23 times across 18 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1986. It appears in 12 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for TSAR
Every other clue in this collection answered by TSAR, most used first.
- Despot - used 180 times, most recently in 2026
- Autocrat - used 100 times, most recently in 2014
- Romanov ruler - used 96 times, most recently in 2026
- Russian ruler - used 89 times, most recently in 2026
- Ruler - used 87 times, most recently in 1997
- Old Russian ruler - used 84 times, most recently in 2026
- Former Russian ruler - used 78 times, most recently in 2026
- Winter Palace resident - used 64 times, most recently in 2025
- Bygone Russian ruler - used 59 times, most recently in 2026
- Peter the Great, e.g. - used 49 times, most recently in 2026
- Bygone despot - used 40 times, most recently in 2026
- Ivan or Peter - used 32 times, most recently in 2022
- Old autocrat - used 32 times, most recently in 2026
- Bygone autocrat - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
- Ivan the Terrible, e.g. - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
- Nicholas II, for one - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
- Boris Godunov, for one - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
- Peter or Paul - used 30 times, most recently in 2019
- Russian despot - used 30 times, most recently in 2022
- Russian ruler until 1917 - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
- Ruler until 1917 - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
- Bygone ruler - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
- Russian ruler of old - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
- Emperor - used 24 times, most recently in 1999
- Dictator - used 23 times, most recently in 2003
- Autocrat until 1917 - used 22 times, most recently in 2015
- Nicholas II, e.g. - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
- Russian ruler of yore - used 22 times, most recently in 2017
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- Pre-owned - USED, used 145 times
- Mideast ruler - EMIR, used 82 times
- Pre-Easter period - LENT, used 80 times
- Former Iranian ruler - SHAH, used 75 times
- Kuwaiti ruler - EMIR, used 73 times
- Arab ruler - EMIR, used 41 times
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