| RATIONALISATION | Logical justification right before state takeover of private property? Not new! (15) |
| COUPDETAT | Violent state takeover (4,5) |
| ALLEVIATE | "It is immoral to use private property in order to ____ the horrible evils that result from the institution of private property" (Oscar Wilde) |
| PERSONALEFFECTS | The ways someone influences others with little bits of private property (8,7) |
| EQUALITY | Socialist ideal - the end of private property (8) |
| ASAD | Words before "state of affairs" |
| CORONATION | Bill's partner welcoming king before state ceremony (10) |
| INDIGNATION | Where archaeologists discover something before state shows righteous anger |
| POSSESSIONS | Fifty per cent of auctions follow takeover of property (11) |
| INTER | Before state or collegiate |
| ENGELS | Author of 1884's "The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State" |
| EMINENTDOMAIN | In US law, the right of a state or its agents to appropriate private property for public use, usually with financial compensation (7,6) |
| UNITED | Word before States or Airlines |
| EASTERN | The E of LNER, one the 'big four' railways companies that flourished in the UK before the government takeover of services |
| YEARBOOK | Annual report of UK takeover of flipping Scottish bank (8) |
| NATIONALISATION | Takeover of an industry by the state (15) |
| EMINENT | Power of a state to confiscate private property for public use, usually with compensation paid to the owner (7,6) |
| DOMAIN | Power of a state to confiscate private property for public use, usually with compensation paid to the owner (7,6) |
| RIGHTFULAUTHORITY | Governments right to acquire private property for public |
| RIGHTOFEMINENTDOMAIN | Governments right to acquire private property for public |
