| BREZHNEV | Leonid ---, succeeded Khrushchev |
| ANDROPOV | Yuri ___, leader of the Soviet Union (as General Secretary of its Communist Party) who succeeded Leonid Brezhnev in 1982 (8) |
| VOROSHILOV | Kliment ___, Soviet head of state from 1953 to 1960, succeeded by Leonid Brezhnev (10) |
| LENINPEACEPRIZE | Fidel Castro, Kwame Nkrumah, Leonid Brezhnev |
| NIKITA | Leonid predecessor |
| KRAVCHUK | Leonid ?, president of Ukraine from 1991-94 |
| NIKITAKHRUSHCHEV | Leonid Brezhnev replaced ____ in 1964 |
| NOV | Mo. for viewing the Leonid meteor shower |
| YURIANDROPOV | Leonid Brezhnev, ____, Konstantin Chernenko |
| ILLOMENED | Leonid & Mel are bewitched (3-6) |
| LOITERS | Hangs around Leonid. Theory so odd! (7) |
| BLONDIE | Leonid Brezhnev's top punk group |
| PLANETOID | Leonid apt to be mistaken for another heavenly body |
| SHOOTINGSTAR | What pap's doing for Leonid maybe (8,4) |
| ENDORSEE | One backed by Leonid to even run spy (8) |
| USSR | Country that was once led by Leonid Brezhnev: Abbr. |
| SALTII | Nuclear-weapons agreement signed by Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev, in 1979 |
| ADAMS | Astronomer who explained the origin of the Leonid meteor swarms, described the motion of the Moon and independently calculated Neptune's position, by mathematical rather than observational means (5) |
| BONEIDLE | What makes Leonid be so lazy? (4,4) |
| LEONID | ____ Brezhnev, Soviet leader who succeeded Nikita Khrushchev in 1964 (6) |
