| MIKHAIL | Carrie's lover Aleksandr in Sex & the City, ... Baryshnikov (7) |
| BORODIN | Aleksandr --, 1833-87, Russian composer and scientist (7) |
| BOLSHOI | Mikhail Baryshnikov defected from the Soviet Union in 1974 while on tour in Toronto with what ballet company? |
| PUSHKIN | Aleksandr ___, author of 1833 verse novel Eugene Onegin (7) |
| KARELIN | 1988-96 Olympic wrestling champion, Aleksandr ...(7) |
| MEERKAT | Comparison website's Aleksandr? (7) |
| LATVIAN | Mikhail Baryshnikov, by birth |
| CORBETT | American actor known for his roles in Sex and the City and My Big Fat Greek Wedding, John - (7) |
| CYNTHIA | And 59 American actress best known for playing Miranda Hobbes in Sex and the City (7,5) |
| MIRANDA | Cynthia Nixon's character in Sex and the City, ___ Hobbes (7) |
| KRISTIN | Played Charlotte in Sex and the City, ------- Davis (7) |
| GULAG | "The ___ Archipelago" (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn work about forced labor in the Soviet Union) |
| AUTHORSHIP | The MS Aleksandr Pushkin? It's all part of the writing process (10) |
| SCRIABIN | Aleksandr, Russian composer of piano and orchestral music born in 1871 (8) |
| IVAN | 1962 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn novel, A Day In The Life Of _ Denisovich (4) |
| MOSCOW | Writer Aleksandr Pushkin was born in which city? (6) |
| KIROV | Whom Baryshnikov danced for in the '60s |
| IGOR | Prince in an Aleksandr Borodin opera |
| VANGUARD | Introduces Viktor Aleksandr Nikolai backing The Cure around academy for Front Row (8) |
| FREESTYLE | Swimming stroke of Olympians Dawn Fraser, Aleksandr Popov and Johnny Weissmuller (9) |