| HONECKER | In 1989, East Germany's politburo ousted Erich ____ as head of state in an attempt to regain public support |
| MURAT | Napoleon's brother-in-law who served as king of Naples 1808-15; a flamboyant cavalry leader shot following a failed attempt to regain his throne (5) |
| CLASP | Applaud while wrapping head of state in an embrace (5) |
| FLUTTERY | Dash round state in an agitated manner (8) |
| DONITZ | Karl ___, German admiral named as Adolf Hitler's successor as head of state in April 1945 |
| BARBADOS | Caribbean island that officially announced its intention in 2020 to remove the Queen as head of state (8) |
| GOVERNORGENERAL | Chief representative of the British Crown in a Commonwealth nation regarding the monarch as head of state (8,7) |
| MONARCHY | Form of government that has a queen, king or emperor as head of state |
| IDIAMIN | Ugandan military dictator deposed as head of state and exiled in 1979 (3,4) |
| BUDNELSON | Alongside his human companion Horatio Nelson Jackson, he became the first dog to cross the United States in an automobile in 1903. He wore goggles that ended up at the Smithsonian Museum of American H |
| STASI | Founded in 1950, abolished in 1990, East Germany's secret police force; a force that was regarded as |
| NETANYAHU | Old Indian statesman losing right to install woman as head of state (9) |
| MIKHAILGORBACHEV | He spent December 25, 1991 resigning as head of state |
| BIGBROTHER | George Bush, for example, as head of state spying on people (3,7) |
| ASKING | As head of state, petitioning he'll get (6) |
| REPUBLIC | Nation with a president as head of state (8) |
| AMASS | Accumulate a million as head of state (5) |
| EDENTATE | Toothless old prime minister installed as head of state (8) |
| PROTECTOR | Lord ---, title borne by Oliver Cromwell as head of state 1653-58 (9) |
| LAS | Boxer Sonny Liston knocked out Floyd Patterson in US gambling city ... Vegas in 1963 to regain the h |
