Former Chinese chief (3 letters)

Religious scholar (4 letters)

Syrian leader (5 letters)

Kuwaiti leader (4 letters)

Bygone royal (4 letters)

Leader of a flock (6 letters)

Beginning of a tape (6 letters)

Mussorgsky's Boris (4 letters)

Leader of a Mass. rebellion: 1786-87 (5 letters)

Civil-rights leader Medgar ___ (5 letters)

Ottoman luminary (3 letters)

Tim of "Sister, Sister" (4 letters)

Cain's victim (4 letters)

Tribal bigwig (5 letters)

Smart-alecky (4 letters)

Afghan prince (5 letters)

One of the Khans (3 letters)

The beginning (5 letters)

Chinese: Comb. form (4 letters)

Musical syllable (3 letters)