| ARKIN | 'The Russians Are Coming . . .' Oscar nominee |
| BIKEL | "The Defiant Ones" (1958) and "The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!" (1966) star Theodore |
| CARLREINER | "The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming" star |
| ALANARKIN | Actor whose debut film was "The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!" |
| REDALERT | "The Russians are coming... and Chinese arm in arm?" goes the POTUS alarm! (3,5) |
| POTSDAM | "The Russians are liars - you can't trust them" (Harry S Truman, talking about the 1945 ____ conference) |
| SYPHILIS | What disease was called "the French disease" by the British and Germans, "the Neapolitan disease" by the French, "the Polish disease" by the Russians and "the German disease" by the Polish? (8) |
| DISPUTING | What Russians are ill-advised to do? Leader in general challenging (9) |
| USSR | Half of Russians are at odds with their former state (1,1,1,1) |
| VITUSBERING | Danish navigator who explored the North Pacific for the Russians in the 18th Century (5,6) |
| KIEV | The Russians call it the "mother of cities" |
| ARAL | The Russians once called it "The Blue Sea" |
| REEDS | Plants in the east among the Russians (5) |
| ALHAIG | General who said, "The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be |
| GULAG | Most of the piece on American city golf camp held the Russians captive (5) |
| VEGA | What name did the Russians give to their space probes which visited Halley's comet in the mid-1980s (4) |
| VERST | Skilled in audio production, and thus has the measure of the Russians (5) |
| INKERMAN | 1854 battle during the Crimean War in which British and French forces defeated the Russians (8) |
| ZELENSKEY | Who was president of the Ukraine when the Russians invaded in February 2022? (9) |
| MIR | The Russians sent it up |
