| ANDROPOV | Yuri _, head of state of the Soviet Union (1983-84) |
| GORBACHEV | Mikhail ---, head of state of the Soviet Union 1988-91 (9) |
| HONECKER | Erich ___, head of state of East Germany from 1976-89 (8) |
| MAO | First head of state of the People's Republic of China |
| PRESIDENT | The head of state of the US (9) |
| PEACH | Princess who's the head of state of the Mushroom Kingdom |
| DOOM | Destiny is the opposite of state of the emotions |
| ALFREDVONTIRPITZ | Secretary of State of the German Imperial Naval Office 1897-1916 |
| BRABANT | Duchy of -, state of the Holy Roman Empire disestablished in 1795 (7) |
| TITHE | Focus of State of the Plate research |
| NORIEGA | Manuel ___, military leader; de facto head of state of Panama from 1983-89 (7) |
| EMIR | Title of the heads of state of Kuwait and Qatar (4) |
| TITULAR | Existing in name only, as in "___ head of state"? |
| AMIN | Idi ?, head of state of Uganda from 1971-79 |
| PETAIN | Head of State of Vichy France (6) |
| SANDRAMASON | Head of state of Barbados, replacing Queen Elizabeth II on November 30 2021 |
| LARKIN | Pop _, head of the family in The Darling Buds Of May (6) |
| STALKER | John ___, head of an eponymous inquiry into shootings of suspected members of the Provisional IRA (7) |
| AXE | Stanford ___ (head of a weapon used as a trophy for the winner of the annual StanfordCal football game) |
| POTTS | Mrs. __, head of the kitchen in "Beauty and the Beast" |
