| GOGOL | Nikolai, author of Dead Souls (5) |
| NIKOLAIGOGOL | Russian author of Dead Souls (1842) |
| HOARD | Emulate Plyushkin in Gogol's "Dead Souls" |
| SOULS | Dead Nikolai Gogol novel (5) |
| SADKO | Opera by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov about a Novgorod minstrel (5) |
| TOPOR | WS Wanderers, Newcastle and Western Utd defender, Nikolai ...-Stanley (5) |
| TOPIC | Bosnian actor who often plays henchmen and stars as Nikolai in Medical Police, Velibor - (5) |
| OPERA | Christmas Eve is one by Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-korsakov |
| TARAS | Nikolai Gogol's "___ Bulba" |
| NIKOLAI | "Dead Souls" novelist Gogol |
| STYX | River over which Charon carried dead souls (4) |
| NIKOLAYGOGOL | Who wrote Dead Souls and "The Overcoat"? |
| BYGONES | Hollowly beatify dead souls? From the start, let them be (7) |
| IAN | Scottish crime writer whose novels include Dead Souls and Let It Bleed (3,6) |
| RANKIN | Ian ___, Scottish crime writer whose novels include Dead Souls and Let It Bleed (6) |
| TARASBULBA | Film loosely based on a novel of the same name by Nikolai Gogol (5,5) |
| ROSTOV | Ancient city of Russia (or the family name of Nikolai in War And Peace) (6) |
| SCHEHERAZADE | One of the best known works of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, written in 1888 |
| ISLANDERS | The -; novel by Nikolai Leskov, Russian author of The Sealed Angel, The Enchanted Wanderer and Lefty (9) |
| RIMSKYKORSAKOV | Nikolai ___ 19th-century composer of Flight of the Bumblebee who has a hard-to-spell name: Hyph. |
