| ILDUCE | Political title of the |
| GOV | Stately political title, for short |
| SEN | Political title for Chuck Schumer: Abbr. |
| SENATOR | Sheev Palpatine's political title |
| PONTIFEX | ____ Maximus, High Priest, as much a political title for Caesar as a religious role |
| ELECT | Suffix on political titles in November and December |
| FIRSTDAUGHTER | Informal political title that could be applied to 15-, 17-, 46-, and 48-Across: 2 wds. |
| WELLINGTON | Duke of -; title of the prime minister known as the Iron Duke who defeated Napoleon at the Battle of |
| AGA | The --- Khan is the hereditary title of the head of the Ismaili Islamic sect (3) |
| BYRON | Lord -; title of the poet whose works include Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and Don Juan, the father of Ada Lovelace, he died from malaria at the age of 36 (5) |
| SHREW | Complete the title of the Shakespeare play: The Taming Of The ___ (5) |
| TAOISEACH | The official title of the prime minister of the Republic of Ireland (9) |
| LYTTON | 1st Baron -; title of the author of The Last Days of Pompeii whose son was appointed Viceroy of India in 1875 by friend Benjamin Disraeli (6) |
| DAUPHIN | The title of the eldest son of the king of France from 1349 to 1830 (7) |
| DAHDAHDAHDAHDAH | Zero in Morse code, any part of which will finish the title of the Oscar-winning song found at the e |
| BOOKOFLONGING | What is the title of the song cycle by Philip Glass that is based on the poetry of Leonard Cohen and |
| AGAKHAN | Hereditary title of the head of the Ismaili sect of Muslims (3,4) |
| ARTIST | What completes the title of the James Joyce novel A Portrait of the ___ as a Young Man? (6) |
| RAYLEIGH | Lord -; title of the co-discoverer of argon who married Arthur James Balfour's sister Evelyn in 1871, the same year he explained why the sky is blue (8) |
| SIAM | Anna and the King of ___ (title of the novel The King and I is based on) |
