| VANCLIBURN | Pianist who wowed Moscow in 1958 |
| SAMSMITH | Non-binary recording artist who wowed in their latex outfit on the red carpet (3,5) |
| WAGNER | Single-named Brazilian singer who wowed on the seventh series of X Factor (6) |
| STEVEOVETT | Middle-distance runner from England who won gold in 1980 at Moscow in the 800m (5,5) |
| USSR | What song (Back in the ___) did Paul McCartney perform in Moscow in 2003? (1,1,1,1) |
| POLITKOVSKAYA | Anna ___, Russian journalist murdered in Moscow in 2006 (13) |
| SMIRNOFF | Vodka brand founded in Moscow in 1864 (8) |
| RASPUTIN | Mystic Russian monk murdered in Moscow in 1916 (8) |
| WIND | Breeze found in Moscow in downtown region (4) |
| BOLSHOI | Russian ballet company founded in Moscow in 1776 (7) |
| BRANISLAVIVANOVIC | Serbian defender who joined Chelsea from Lokomotiv Moscow in 2008 |
| COLDFRONT | What Napoleon encountered in Moscow in 1812 was forecasted? (4,5) |
| KENT | Rockwell, recipient of the Lenin Peace Prize in Moscow in 1967 (4) |
| COMINTERN | International Communist organization founded by Lenin in Moscow in 1919 (9) |
| UNCLEVANYA | Play by Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov premiered in Moscow in 1899 (5,5) |
| KANDINSKY | Wassily -, artist born in Moscow in 1866, a pioneer of abstraction (9) |
| TOLSTOY | Novelist who died at Astapovo train station, 400km southeast of Moscow, in 1910 (7) |
| REDSQUARE | UNESCO World Heritage Site (1990) in central Moscow in which Lenin's Mausoleum is located (3,6) |
| MCGEADY | Aiden ___, Falkirk-born Republic of Ireland winger who joined Everton from Spartak Moscow in 2014 |
| TOSIC | Zoran ..... . Manchester United winger who was sold to CSKA Moscow in 2010 (5) |
