Alexander I, for one, 4 letters
Anastasia's father was one, 4 letters
Anastasia's father, for one, 4 letters
Authoritarian figure, 4 letters
Autocrat until 1917, 4 letters
Big shot of industry, 4 letters
Boris Godunov, e.g., 4 letters
Boris Godunov, for one, 4 letters
Captain of industry, 4 letters
Certain Obama appointee, 4 letters
Commissioner's title, maybe, 4 letters
CONCLUDING WITH 17-ACROSS (Ban Johnson), 4 letters
Drug ___ (DEA head), 4 letters
Drug ___ (government position), 4 letters
Drug ___ (Washington pooh-bah), 4 letters
Drug or energy chief, 4 letters
Drug-fighting authority, 4 letters
Erstwhile Russian ruler, 4 letters
Father of a grand duchess, 4 letters
Father of a grand duke, 4 letters
Former Kremlin despot, 4 letters
Former Russian autocrat, 4 letters
Former Russian emperor, 4 letters
Former Russian leader, 4 letters
Former Russian ruler, 4 letters
Grand duchess's father, 4 letters
Grand duke's father, 4 letters
Green Jobs ___ (Van Jones's informal title for six months in 2009), 4 letters
Industrial mogul, e.g., 4 letters
Ivan the Terrible, e.g., 4 letters
Ivan the Terrible, for one, 4 letters
Nicholas I, for one, 4 letters
Nicholas II was the last one, 4 letters
Nicholas II, for example, 4 letters
Nicholas or Alexander, 4 letters
Nicholas Romanov, for one, 4 letters
Nicholas was the last, 4 letters
Non-cabinet presidential advisor, unofficially, 4 letters
Old Russian autocrat, 4 letters
One standing out in a field?, 4 letters
One with great authority, 4 letters
One with great power, 4 letters
Onetime russian ruler, 4 letters
Person with unlimited power, 4 letters
Peter the Great, e.g., 4 letters
Peter the Great, for one, 4 letters
Petrograd potentate, 4 letters
Political appointee, 4 letters
Political leader, informally, 4 letters
Powerful business-person, 4 letters
Powerful businessman, 4 letters
Powerful presidential appointee, 4 letters
Powerful ruler of old, 4 letters
Pre-Communism leader, 4 letters
Pre-Communist Russian ruler, 4 letters
Pre-Revolution ruler, 4 letters
Pre-revolutionary ruler, 4 letters
Rasputin's employer, e.g., 4 letters
Ruler toppled by the Bolsheviks, 4 letters
Russia-ruling Romanov, e.g., 4 letters
Russian ruler of old, 4 letters
Russian ruler of yore, 4 letters
Russian ruler, once, 4 letters
Title first used by Simeon I of Bulgaria, 4 letters
Title not used after 1917, 4 letters
Unconfirmed executive branch appointee, 4 letters
Undemocratic leader, 4 letters
War on drugs leader, 4 letters
White House appointment, 4 letters
White House policy appointee, 4 letters
Winter Palace dweller, 4 letters
Winter Palace figure, 4 letters
Winter Palace resident, 4 letters
Winter Palace ruler, 4 letters
Word with drug or energy, 4 letters
A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917), 4 letters
A person having great power, 4 letters
Like snide remarks from old Russian despots? (#4 in David Yale's Pun Enchanted Evenings), 10 letters
Hungarian folk dance, 7 letters
Hungarian national dance, 7 letters
Hungarian folk dances with two tempos, 9 letters
Peter's realm, e.g., 7 letters
Old Russian despot's daughter, 8 letters
Catherine or Elizabeth, e.g., 7 letters
Catherine the Great, e.g., 7 letters
Russian royalty, pre-1917, 7 letters
Winter Palace resident, 7 letters
The wife or widow of a czar, 7 letters
Catherine and others, 8 letters
Autocratic, Russian-style, 7 letters
Of Russian monarchy, 7 letters
Captains of industry, 5 letters
Certain presidential appointees, 5 letters
Crest-fallen Russians, 5 letters
Early Eurasian leaders, 5 letters
Former Russian emperors, 5 letters
Former Winter Palace residents, 5 letters
Ivan the Terrible, et al., 5 letters
Ivan, Nicholas and Peter, 5 letters
Nicholas I and Alexander I, 5 letters
Ones with great authority, 5 letters
Onetime Russian emperors, 5 letters
Peter the Great and Ivan the Terrible, 5 letters
U.S. drug officials, 5 letters
White House appointees, 5 letters
Winter Palace residents, 5 letters
Winter Palace throne?, 8 letters
___ Republic (country of which V, 5 letters
Franz Kafka, for one, 5 letters
Havel's native language, 5 letters
Klement Gottwald was one, 5 letters
Language in which k and v are the words for to and in, 5 letters
Language related to Slovak, 5 letters
Language that gave us the word polka, 5 letters
Language where Jak se m, 5 letters
Like R.U.R.'s author, 5 letters
Like the author of R.U.R., 5 letters
Prime Minister Milos Zeman, say, 5 letters
Source of the word robot, 5 letters
Tom Stoppard, by birth, 5 letters
A native of inhabitant of the Czech Republic, 5 letters
A native or inhabitant of the former republic of Czechoslovakia, 5 letters
The Slavic language of the Czech people, 5 letters
Eastern European guy who loves both sexes?, 11 letters
In Search Of: Central European guy who swings both ways; hoping to receive a ___, 11 letters
Prague native's debit card alternative?, 9 letters
Restaurant bill in Prague?, 10 letters
Source of a certain Slav's balancing act?, 15 letters
See for yourself, in Prague, 10 letters
European + Communist = ticks, 9 letters
Country divided in 1993, 14 letters
It split apart on January 1, 1993, 14 letters
A former republic in central Europe, 14 letters
Divided into Czech Republic and Slovakia in 1993, 14 letters
Sleight of hand used to summon a Bohemian?, 11 letters
Vocal ranges of Prague crooners?, 14 letters
Bohemians and Moravians, 6 letters
Navratilova and Lendl, 6 letters
Singles bar thought, in Prague?, 11 letters
Proofreaders from Prague?, 15 letters
Writer of many piano exercises, 6 letters
Itchy skin condition (6), 3 letters
Leon ___, McKinley's assassin, 8 letters
McKinley's assassin, 8 letters
The wife or widow of a czar, 8 letters
A native or inhabitant of the former republic of Czechoslovakia, 12 letters
A native or inhabitant of the former republic of Czechoslovakia, 15 letters