| EUGENEONEGIN | 1879 opera by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky |
| ONEGIN | Eugene ---, 1879 opera by Tchaikovsky |
| SWAN | _ Lake, 1875's ballet by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (4) |
| SWANLAKE | 1877 ballet composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (4,4) |
| NUTCRACKER | The ?, 1892 two-act ballet with music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (10) |
| BOLSHOI | ? Theatre, site in Moscow, Russia of the 1877 premiere of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky ballet Swan Lake (7) |
| TCHAIKOVSKY | Pyotr Ilyich -, composer of 1890 opera The Queen of Spades |
| HOFFMANN | E. T. A. -; German writer whose novella The Nutcracker and the Mouse King was adapted into a ballet with a score by Pyotr Tchaikovsky (8) |
| THENUTCRACKER | 1892 ballet by Pyotr Tchaikovsky in which the Sugar Plum Fairy appears (3,10) |
| FRITZ | Brother of Clara and Louise in the 1892 ballet The Nutcracker by Pyotr Tchaikovsky (5) |
| OBOES | Double-reeded woodwinds forming part of the instrumentation of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet score of The Nutcracker (5) |
| PATRONYMIC | Romantic piano works to include second item from Pyotr Ilyich, perhaps (10) |
| PYOTR | Composing legend ___ Ilyich Tchaikovsky |
| PIOTR | Composer __ Ilyich Tchaikovsky |
| BEAUTY | The Sleeping _ _ _ _ _ _ , ballet first performed in 1890 with music by Russian composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky (6) |
| SUGAR | Dance of the - Plum Fairy ; piece for the celesta in Pyotr Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker (5) |
| STOLYPIN | Pyotr ___, Russian conservative statesman; prime minister 1906-11 (8) |
| LENINISM | Body of theories formulated by Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov |
| AGENTLEMAN | 2016 novel by Amor Towles whose protagonist is Count Alexander Ilyich Rostov (1,9,2,6) |
| INMOSCOW | 2016 novel by Amor Towles whose protagonist is Count Alexander Ilyich Rostov (1,9,2,6) |
