| ORLOV | Grigory ___; military officer who orchestrated the coup d'tat which overthrew his lover Catherine the Great's husband Peter III (5) |
| HENRYIV | Bolingbroke Castle-born son of John of Gaunt and Blanche of Lancaster who overthrew his cousin Richard II, forming the Lancastrian dynasty (5,1,1) |
| OCTOBERREVOLUTION | The coup d'etat in November 1917 that established a Soviet government in Russia |
| MERLIN | Wizard and adviser to King Arthur who orchestrated the sword in the stone (6) |
| YAMAMOTO | Isoroku ___, Japanese admiral who orchestrated the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 (8) |
| TED | Music lover caught up in coup d"tat (3) |
| SONATA | Immersed in Coup D"tat, a nostalgic revolutionary series of movements (6) |
| RAVEL | Composer who orchestrated Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition" |
| ARNOLD | Benedict, U.S. military officer who defected to the British in 1780 in the Revolutionary War (6) |
| MUSHARRAF | Military officer who took power in Pakistan in a coup (1999) and who later served as president (2001-08) |
| NAPOLEON | Military officer who was the Emperor of the French from 1804 to 1814, _ Bonaparte (8) |
| ORDE | ___ Wingate. British military officer who commanded the Chindits in the Second World War (4) |
| WICKHAM | Pride and Prejudice's villain; a military officer who romances the youngest Bennet sister (7) |
| WINGATE | Orde ******* , British military officer who led the Chindits and supported Zionism (7) |
| JUNTA | Group of military officers who rule a country after a coup d'etat |
| PINOCHET | Chilean dictator who led the coup that ousted and resulted in the death of president Salvador Allend |
| ELOPE | The last of the antelope will run away with his lover (5) |
| LAFAYETTE | French military officer who commanded American troops in the Revolutionary War |
| AIDEDECAMP | Military officer who acts as assistant to a more senior office (3 wds) |
| JAIRBOLSONARO | Retired military officer who will assume office as president of Brazil on January 1 2019 (4,9) |
