| OTTOI | Holy Roman emperor dubbed "the Great" |
| HALEBOPP | Comet ___, body in the Solar System discovered in 1995 dubbed the Great Comet of 1997 (4-4) |
| DARIUSI | Persian ruler dubbed "the Great" |
| PITT | English prime minister dubbed "The Great Commoner" |
| WAYNEGRETZKY | NHL legend dubbed "The Great One" (5 to 9) |
| STLEO | Fifth-c. Pope dubbed "the Great" |
| BORGE | Performer dubbed "The Great Dane" |
| ELECTOR | Formerly, any of the German princes with the right to take part in the election of the Holy Roman Emperor (7) |
| GUELPH | Member of a political faction in medieval Italy that supported the Papacy and opposed the Holy Roman emperor and the Ghibellines (6) |
| OTTO | --- the Great, Holy Roman Emperor 962-973 (4) |
| LOUISIV | Given here with his ordinal, who was known as "the Bavarian" and became the Holy Roman Emperor in 13 |
| GREGORYV | First German pope - his cousin Otto was the Holy Roman Emperor at the time (7,1) |
| DURER | Foremost German painter and engraver of the Renaissance, patronised by the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I (8,5) |
| MALTA | In 1530, an island received by the Knights Hospitaller in a perpetual lease from the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V in exchange for an annual fee of a falcon (5) |
| CHARLEMAGNE | King of the Franks (768-814) who became the first Holy Roman Emperor in 800 AD (11) |
| PINERO | Author of "The Holy Roman Emperor" |
| BARBAROSSA | Epithet of the Holy Roman emperor Frederick I |
| RIGATTI | Giovanni Antonio -, 17th-century Italian composer whose works include a mass dedicated to the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand III (7) |
| WORMS | City of SW Germany in which Martin Luther defended his doctrines to the Holy Roman emperor Charles V in 1521 (5) |
| ELECTORS | German princes entitled to be involved in choosing the Holy Roman Emperor |
