| STO | 100, in Moscow |
| OPERA | Type of drama set to music at the Palais Garnier in Paris, La Scala in Milan or the Bolshoi in Moscow, for example (5) |
| VASSALL | John ___, a clerk in the British embassy in Moscow, coerced to spy for the Soviets in the 1950s (7) |
| USSR | What song (Back in the ___) did Paul McCartney perform in Moscow in 2003? (1,1,1,1) |
| COLDFRONT | What Napoleon encountered in Moscow in 1812 was forecasted? (4,5) |
| REDSQUARE | English name of the plaza in Moscow next to the Kremlin known in Russian as Krasnaya Ploshchad(3,6) |
| KREMLINOLOGIST | Expert in Moscow, e.g., or in Tomsk, ill prepared? (14) |
| POLITKOVSKAYA | Anna ___, Russian journalist murdered in Moscow in 2006 (13) |
| EDWINMOSES | This American hurdler won gold in 1976 and 1984, but couldn't compete at the 1980 Games in Moscow owing to a U.S. boycott over the Afghan War |
| KENT | Rockwell, recipient of the Lenin Peace Prize in Moscow in 1967 (4) |
| LENIN | Leader depicted in statues at the Muzeon Park of Arts in Moscow |
| BLINI | They're put away in Moscow and in Dublin initially (5) |
| COMINTERN | International Communist organization founded by Lenin in Moscow in 1919 (9) |
| EMS | Mumbai has a couple, there's one in Moscow and none in Ottawa |
| CYRILLIC | Like the alphabet in Moscow ... or each letter in the starred answers |
| OVERT | British gold medallist in 800 metres at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow, Steve - (5) |
| SMIRNOFF | Vodka brand founded in Moscow in 1864 (8) |
| UNCLEVANYA | Play by Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov premiered in Moscow in 1899 (5,5) |
| KANDINSKY | Wassily -, artist born in Moscow in 1866, a pioneer of abstraction (9) |
| RASPUTIN | Mystic Russian monk murdered in Moscow in 1916 (8) |
