Related Clues:

• Puss had no right to go around the old city like this
• Takes control without authority
• Forces relax in quarters
• Assumes American city once taking power succeeds initially
• Seizes control
• Gains by force
• Takes power illegally
• Pulls with a violent twist
• Takes away by force
• Accroaches
• Tears (away) from
• Takes illegally
• USSR, up to trouble, takes over
• Forcibly removes
• Adams of 'Big Eyes'