| MADETO | (and 5 Across) Custom-built, as a ruler is (4,2,7) |
| MADETOMEASURE | Not casually bought, as a ruler is (4,2,7) |
| SOCIETAL | With 70-Across, customs |
| MACHIAVELLIAN | Hal, evil maniac, dreadfully cunning as a ruler |
| DRAMAQUEEN | A ruler is after a small drink, she's so melodramatic (5,5) |
| AFOOT | Often how long a ruler is being prepared (5) |
| PALACE | Oddly enough, a place where a ruler is kept (6) |
| KING | A ruler is in the desk in Greg's room (4) |
| BREAKING | First book about a ruler is falling apart (8) |
| SOAKING | Note a ruler is very wet |
| PANTHEON | It was built as a temple in the Campus Martius, Rome, by Marcus Agrippa, 27 BCE. It is now used as a church. The body of the building is an immense circular space lit solely a 27-foot (8-metre) "eye," |
| SANDCASTLES | Shore thing built that is built as a pail image of a royal residence |
| ONEFOOT | As long as a ruler gets buried near the end? (3,4,2,3,5) |
| FOOTMAN | Servant just as big as a ruler? (7) |
| CALIPH | A successor of Muhammad as a ruler of the Islamic world |
| REINS | Exercises control, as a ruler does, we hear (5) |
| RIDEAU | This 200-km (125-mile) canal between Ottawa and Lake Ontario at Kingston was completed in 1832. It was built as a military project to provide a secure connection between Montreal and Kingston. It was |
| CAIRN | A mound of rough stones built as a memorial or landmark, typically on a hilltop or skyline (5) |
| SOVEREIGN | Governs, i.e., as a ruler (9) |
| OUST | Get rid of, as a ruler |
