| DONITZ | Karl ___, German admiral named as Adolf Hitler's successor as head of state in April 1945 |
| NASSER | Tito's successor as head of the Non-Aligned Movement |
| DOENITZ | Dirty dozen protects city centre for Hitler's successor (7) |
| BELSEN | Bergen-___, the Nazi concentration camp liberated by the Allies in April 1945 (6) |
| EVABRAUN | Hitler's lover, whom he married in April 1945 (3,5) |
| HAWKE | Lord, Admiral named on Maunsell 'N15' engine 30860 (5) |
| BARHAM | Lord, Admiral named on LMR Stanier engine 45653 (6) |
| GOVERNORGENERAL | Chief representative of the British Crown in a Commonwealth nation regarding the monarch as head of state (8,7) |
| HONECKER | In 1989, East Germany's politburo ousted Erich ____ as head of state in an attempt to regain public support |
| MONARCHY | Form of government that has a queen, king or emperor as head of state |
| BARBADOS | Caribbean island that officially announced its intention in 2020 to remove the Queen as head of state (8) |
| IDIAMIN | Ugandan military dictator deposed as head of state and exiled in 1979 (3,4) |
| BIGBROTHER | George Bush, for example, as head of state spying on people (3,7) |
| NETANYAHU | Old Indian statesman losing right to install woman as head of state (9) |
| PROTECTOR | Lord ---, title borne by Oliver Cromwell as head of state 1653-58 (9) |
| HEISENBERG | Werner Karl ___, German physicist and Nobel Laureate who formulated the uncertainty, or indeterminacy, principle in 1927 (10) |
| MIKHAILGORBACHEV | He spent December 25, 1991 resigning as head of state |
| 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) |
