| GOVERNANCE | The exercise of authority |
| CLEMENCY | Lenience in the exercise of authority or power (8) |
| DESPOTISM | The point in religious belief is the exercise of absolute power (9) |
| PRACTICE | The usual procedure in the exercise of a profession (8) |
| WITCHCRAFT | Sorcery or the exercise of supernatural power (10) |
| MEGALOMANIA | Obsession with the exercise of power (11) |
| POWERTRIP | Self-indulgent exercise of authority |
| COMMAND | Exercise of authority (7) |
| DOMINATION | The exercise of power or influence over someone or something (10) |
| NOETIC | From Greek for "perceive, think", a word for the activity or functioning of the intellect, aka cognition; or, the philosophical exercise of reason (6) |
| ACCLAIM | Praise for a couple of colleges in Alabama getting the point of the exercise (7) |
| SWEAT | The outcome of the exercise |
| BEFIT | Become the object of the exercise |
| VIEW | From "to see", word for a formal inspection first, later an exercise of the faculty of sight; a prospect of fine natural scenery; a painting depicting such a landscape; or, one's outlook (4) |
| USE | Blow a fuse at the end of the exercise! (3) |
| TARGETEDAD | Instagram post for the Exercise Dress that you might see right after you talk about whether you should splurge on the Exercise Dress, e.g. |
| YOGIC | and 29ac, Exercise of hopping while cross-legged that is a central aspect of the TM-Sidhi program introduced by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in 1975 |
| RULEOFLAW | Restriction of the arbitrary exercise of power (4,2,3) |
| FLYING | see 42dn, Exercise of hopping while cross-legged that is a central aspect of the TM-Sidhi program introduced by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in 1975 |
| GYM | Shortly to return the tommyguns to the exercise room (3) |
