Despot, for example Crossword Clue

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Despot, for example Crossword Answer

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(noun)
1. measuring stick consisting of a strip of wood or metal or plastic with a straight edge that is used for drawing straight lines and measuring lengths
2. a person who rules or commands

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

DESPOT (noun)
1. a cruel and oppressive dictator
EXAMPLE (noun)
1. a representative form or pattern
2. something to be imitated

Hint 3: Anagram

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More Apple+ Crossword (8/22/2025) Answers

Across

1. ___ pass (underhand throw in football)

7. ’90s-music icon with flashy pants

13. Destructible party decor

14. Japanese dog breed

16. Sites of competition

17. Experiences defeat, slangily

18. Shops selling subs

19. Parisian Modernist painter

20. Calendar column (Abbr.)

21. Turned tide?

22. Title with a tilde

23. Makeup of mustaches and mullets

24. Sportswear material

26. "That ___ say . . ."

28. Word in favor

30. Capital city once known as Kristiania

32. Highest points

36. Gen ___ ('70s baby, for example)

37. Shape formed by 10 answers in this puzzle?

40. Portuguese greeting

41. Softens

43. ___ it out

44. Promise

45. Cutesy dinosaur sound

48. Yogurt-based beverage

50. Regrets

53. Marital nickname

55. Brain region

58. S

59. Features of Mufasa and Simba

60. Deferential denial

61. German aircraft inventor Ferdinand von ___

63. The Sound of Music song with the lyric ”La! A note to follow so!"

64. Orb nestled in a tree

65. Company depicted in a 2023 film with Will Ferrell playing the CEO

66. Networking device

67. Swindle

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Down

1. Certain playing card

2. Brought on

3. Pithy specialty of James Bond

4. Word before "project" or "Fair"

5. GPS guesses

6. __ Cruces, NM

7. Trail walkers

8. Aid and ___

9. More, in Spanish

10. Mazda convertible

11. Bored character in Inside Out 2

14. ___ the Man (rhyming nickname)

15. Capital city once known as Thăng Long

19. ___ Park, California city where Google was founded

22. "All right!"

23. Ad ___ (as needed)

25. Tons of, informally

27. One of the only two certainties in life, per Benjamin Franklin

28. Body-spray brand known as Lynx in some countries

29. Synonym and anagram of 28-Across

31. Previous

33. Production constructions

34. Rating system used in chess

35. Perceived

38. Sources of flowers or light

39. "All right!"

42. Workplaces for some doctors

46. Ahab in Moby-Dick, for example

47. Encounter

49. Vowel sound in "pig" and "rabbit" but not "tiger"

50. Brand of scooter popular in the 2000s

51. In ___ (before birth)

52. College sports channel

54. Not straight

56. Sex Education and The White Lotus star ___ Lou Wood

57. Safety rehearsal

59. Reference that an extremely offline person probably won't get

60. Biblical builder of a biodiverse boat

62. ___ on the back

63. Hip-hop group Run-___

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