| GRAND | Great Russian-born American novelist dies, having just begun epic |
| AYNRAND | Russian-born American novelist, playwright and screenwriter born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum |
| ASCH | Sholem, Polish-born American novelist and playwright in the Yiddish language (4) |
| STERN | Isaac, Russian-born American violinist born in 1920 (5) |
| ALJOLSON | Russian-born American singer and film star, d. 1950 (2,6) |
| IGORSIKORSKY | Which Russian-born American aircraft designer was responsible for the first commercially successful |
| HOROWITZ | Vladimir, noted Russian born, American pianist |
| ASIMOV | Isaac --, Russian-born American science fiction writer (6) |
| BERLIN | Russian-born American songwriter, d. 1989 (6) |
| ROTHKO | Mark, Russian-born American abstract expressionist painter (6) |
| ISAAC | ___ Asimov, Russian-born American writer of the story collection I, Robot (5) |
| DISEASE | Dies, having gone off to sea: terrible sickness (7) |
| DESPAIRED | Poor padre dies having given up |
| STRAVINSKY | Russian-born American composer who wrote The Ebony Concerto for Woody Herman's band and in 1951 comp |
| RAND | Last name of the Russian-born American writer and philosopher who gained fame with her novel The Fountainhead (1943) |
| DISAGREE | Rage dies having resolved conflict |
| SNUFFIT | Die (having put the candle out?) (5,2) |
| DRIED | Doctor and criminal die, having no water left (5) |
| FIZZLE | They say pop will die, having promised much (6) |
| CHOKO | Almost die having egg and fruit |
