Answer: KOWTOWED
The answer KOWTOWED has 12 possible clues. See the results below.
Possible Clues:
- Deferred to in an obsequious way
 - Bowed and scraped
 - Acted obsequiously
 - Knelt obsequiously
 - Crawled from floor, weight dragged behind
 - Was servile, in a way
 - Upheld agreement to marry, after wife's demonstrated subservience
 - Showed reverence to old wife king strangely married
 - Fawned, bootlicked
 - Showed deference — or anything due — when following king
 
Last seen in:
- Thomas Joseph - King Feature Syndicate - Jan 6 2022
 - Universal - Aug 12 2021
 - Irish Times (Simplex) - Aug 28 2020
 - The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27305
 - Irish Times (Simplex) - Feb 11 2019
 - The Chronicle of Higher Education - Jan 6 2017
 - Universal - Nov 26 2016
 - The Telegraph - CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 2,820 - Nov 1 2015
 - The Times - Cryptic - Easter Monday Cryptic Jumbo - April 21, 2014
 - Irish Times (Simplex) - Dec 4 2012