Autocrats of old
The crossword clue "Autocrats of old" is answered by TSARS, a 5-letter entry. Used 14 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2025. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
TSARS
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the TSARS answer page.
Used 14 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2025. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for TSARS
Every other clue in this collection answered by TSARS, most used first.
- Autocrats - used 40 times, most recently in 2026
- Former Russian rulers - used 37 times, most recently in 2026
- Rulers - used 33 times, most recently in 1997
- Despots - used 32 times, most recently in 2026
- Russian rulers - used 30 times, most recently in 2025
- Winter Palace residents - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
- Old Russian rulers - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
- Old autocrats - used 21 times, most recently in 2025
- Peter and Paul - used 21 times, most recently in 2018
- Peter and Paul, but not Mary - used 21 times, most recently in 2025
- Bygone Russian rulers - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
- Romanov rulers - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
- Pre-1917 rulers - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
- Bygone despots - used 11 times, most recently in 2020
- Ivan and Nicholas - used 10 times, most recently in 2002
- Nicholas and Alexander - used 10 times, most recently in 2015
- Pre-1917 Russian rulers - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Former rulers - used 9 times, most recently in 2000
- Pre-1917 autocrats - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Russian royals - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
- Bygone autocrats - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Former Russian sovereigns - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Ivan and Peter - used 8 times, most recently in 2006
- Old Russian despots - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Pre-Revolution leaders - used 8 times, most recently in 2013
- Russian rulers of old - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- "The ___ Bride" (Rimsky-Korsakov opera) - used 8 times, most recently in 2016
- Bygone rulers - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Peter and Ivan - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Peter and Nicholas - used 7 times, most recently in 2006
- Peter and others - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
- Old Russian autocrats - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Old Russian leaders - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Peter and Alexander - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
- Romanov royals - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
- Russian rulers, once - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Some Romanovs - used 6 times, most recently in 2011
- Winter Palace rulers - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
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