| SULLA | Roman general and dictator |
| CAESAR | Roman general and dictator 100-44 BC |
| FRANCO | Francisco, Spanish Nationalist general and dictator (6) |
| PANGALOS | Theodoros ---, Greek general and dictator, President of Greece for a short spell in 1926 (8) |
| HARRIS | Novelist who wrote Fatherland and the Cicero trilogy comprising Imperium, Lustrum and Dictator (6) |
| STALIN | Left-wing dictator and dictator's bird tailed (6) |
| NORIEGA | Panamanian soldier and dictator till December 1989 |
| AUGUSTOPINOCHET | Chilean soldier and dictator, 1915-2006 (7,8) |
| MARKANTONY | Roman general and statesman who had three children with the Egyptian queen Cleopatra between 40 and 36 BC (4,6) |
| AGRICOLA | Roman general and governor of Britain who advanced Roman rule north to the Firth of Forth |
| CRASSUS | Roman general and politician who allied with Julius Caesar and Pompey in 60 BC to form the First Triumvirate (7) |
| ANTONY | Mark _; Roman general and triumvir (6) |
| ANTHONYTROLLOPE | Novelist linking Roman general and loose woman, say |
| JULIUSCAESAR | Roman general and statesman |
| SCIPIO | - Africanus, Roman general and consul |
| AGRIPPA | Roman general and son-in-law of Augustus |
| POLPOT | Cambodian political leader and dictator (1975-79) born Saloth Sar in 1925 (3,3) |
| BATISTA | Fulgencio -, president of Cuba 1940-44, and dictator 1952-59 (7) |
| PINOCHET | Augusto president and dictator of Chile 1973-90 (8) |
| COTTA | Mother of the Roman general and statesman Julius Caesar (7,5) |
