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Boris Godunov, e.g.

• ___ of industry

• Absolute leader

• Absolute ruler

• Alexander I, for one

• Alexander, e.g.

• All-powerful one

• Anastasia's father was one

• Anastasia's father, for one

• Anticrime boss

• Anticrime chief

• Antidrug biggie

• Antidrug honcho

• Antidrug kingpin

• Antidrug mogul

• Authoritarian figure

• Authority figure

• Autocrat

• Autocrat of old

• Autocrat until 1917

• Autocratic leader

• Autocratic ruler

• Baron

• Baron of business

• Basil or Nicholas

• Basil, e.g.

• Basil, for one

• Big honcho

• Big shot

• Big shot of industry

• Big shot: var.

• Big wheel

• Biz bigwig

• Bolshevik's foe

• Boris Godunov, for one

• Boss

• Business baron

• Business biggie

• Business leader

• Business magnate

• Bygone autocrat

• Bygone despot

• Bygone ruler

• Captain of industry

• Certain Obama appointee

• Chief of a sort

• Commercial bigwig

• Commissioner

• Commissioner's title, maybe

• CONCLUDING WITH 17-ACROSS (Ban Johnson)

• Corporate honcho

• Deposed despot

• Despot

• Drug ___

• Drug ___ (DEA head)

• Drug ___ (government position)

• Drug ___ (Washington pooh-bah)

• Drug kingpin

• Drug official

• Drug or energy chief

• Drug VIP

• Drug-fighting authority

• Emperor

• Energy ___

• Energy boss

• Energy mogul

• Erstwhile autocrat

• Erstwhile Russian ruler

• Father of a grand duchess

• Father of a grand duke

• Federal bigwig

• Former despot

• Former Kremlin despot

• Former Russian autocrat

• Former Russian emperor

• Former Russian leader

• Former Russian ruler

• Former Russian VIP

• Government honcho

• Grand duchess's father

• Grand duke's father

• Green Jobs ___ (Van Jones's informal title for six months in 2009)

• Head boss

• High-level Fed

• Honcho

• Industrial giant

• Industrial kingpin

• Industrial magnate

• Industrial mogul

• Industrial mogul, e.g.

• Industry authority

• Industry big shot

• Industry biggie

• Industry boss

• Industry honcho

• Industry kingpin

• Industry magnate

• Industry mogul

• Industry VIP

• Ivan the Terrible, e.g.

• Ivan the Terrible, for one

• Ivan was one

• Ivan, e.g.

• Ivan, for one

• Kaiser kin

• Kingpin

• Leader until 1917

• Magnate

• Mogul

• Movie mogul

• Mr. Big

• Nicholas I or II

• Nicholas I, for one

• Nicholas II was the last one

• Nicholas II, e.g.

• Nicholas II, for example

• Nicholas or Alexander

• Nicholas or Peter

• Nicholas Romanov, for one

• Nicholas was one

• Nicholas was the last

• Nicholas, e.g.

• Non-cabinet presidential advisor, unofficially

• Obama appointee

• Old autocrat

• Old despot

• Old head

• Old head of Russia

• Old ruler

• Old Russian autocrat

• Old Russian leader

• Old Russian ruler

• Old Russian VIP

• Old-time dictator

• Old-time ruler

• One standing out in a field?

• One with great authority

• One with great power

• Onetime russian ruler

• Person with unlimited power

• Peter I, e.g.

• Peter or Nicholas

• Peter or Paul

• Peter the Great, e.g.

• Peter the Great, for one

• Petrograd potentate

• Policy chief

• Political appointee

• Political leader, informally

• Pooh Bah

• Potentate

• Powerbroker

• Powerful appointee

• Powerful authority

• Powerful boss

• Powerful business-person

• Powerful businessman

• Powerful figure

• Powerful leader

• Powerful one

• Powerful person

• Powerful presidential appointee

• Powerful regulator

• Powerful ruler

• Powerful ruler of old

• Pre-1917 emperor

• Pre-1917 honcho

• Pre-Communism leader

• Pre-Communist Russian ruler

• Pre-Revolution ruler

• Pre-revolutionary ruler

• Rasputin's employer, e.g.

• Romanov ruler

• Royal Romanov

• Ruler

• Ruler of old

• Ruler or mogul

• Ruler toppled by the Bolsheviks

• Russia-ruling Romanov, e.g.

• Russian autocrat

• Russian despot

• Russian emperor

• Russian monarch

• Russian ruler

• Russian ruler of old

• Russian ruler of yore

• Russian ruler, once

• Simeon I, for one

• Studio head, e.g.

• Supreme leader

• Title first used by Simeon I of Bulgaria

• Title not used after 1917

• Unconfirmed executive branch appointee

• Undemocratic leader

• War on drugs leader

• White House appointment

• White House policy appointee

• White Russian

• Winter Palace dweller

• Winter Palace figure

• Winter Palace resident

• Winter Palace ruler

• Word with drug or energy

• A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917)

• A person having great power