| YASHIN | Lev, 1950-70 Dynamo Moscow and 1954-67 USSR goalkeeper (6) |
| OTMANBAKKAL | Attacking midfielder. formerly at PSV, Dynamo Moscow and Feyenoord, whose sole appearance for the Ne |
| JEDVAJ | Tin ...... , Croatia, Lokomotiv Moscow and 2015-21 Bayer Leverkusen defender (6) |
| KELLER | Force out Rockefeller clan from club that hosted USPGA in 1932 and 1954 (6) |
| FANGIO | Argentina's 1951 and 1954-57 Formula One champion, Juan Manuel ... (6) |
| SIRKEN | 1952, 1953 and 1954 Champion Hurdle-winning horse (3,3) |
| PETIPA | Choreographer who created some 50 ballets including The Sleeping Beauty and Don Quixote and, with Lev Ivanov,The Nutcracker and Swan Lake (6) |
| LEVYASHIN | Soviet Union and Dynamo Moscow goalkeeper; 1963 European Footballer of the Year (3,6) |
| IVANOV | Lev, choreographer of Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker (6) |
| WIRTH | Gunther ..... , 1954-62 East Germany and 1954-65 Vorwarts Berlin striker (5) |
| EVELYN | Diarist confused lev with yen |
| SCANDAL | What's central to Moscow and Stalin's shameful episode? |
| USA | Home of Athens, Berlin, Moscow and Paris |
| CAPITALS | A plastic explosive produced by Moscow and Beijing (8) |
| BLINI | They're put away in Moscow and in Dublin initially (5) |
| DNIEPER | What river rises west of Moscow and flows 2200km to the Black Sea? (7) |
| VOLGA | River which runs through Moscow and into the Caspian Sea (5) |
| EMS | Mumbai has a couple, there's one in Moscow and none in Ottawa |
| CANOFWORMS | Potential difficulties from Moscow and far north somehow |
| AHMEDMUSA | Nigeria, Sivasspor, 2012-16 CSKA Moscow and 2016-18 Leicester attacker (5,4) |
