| HOULT | Plays Peter III of Russia in The Great, Nicholas - (5) |
| TSARS | Peter I, II and III of Russia |
| CHRIS | US actor who plays Peter Quill in 2014 action film Guardians of the Galaxy (5,5) |
| PRATT | US actor who plays Peter Quill in 2014 action film Guardians of the Galaxy (5,5) |
| ORLOV | Grigory ___; military officer who orchestrated the coup d'tat which overthrew his lover Catherine the Great's husband Peter III (5) |
| QATAR | A member of the Mongolian people of central Asia who invaded Russia in the 13th century. |
| RURAL | Right by river in Russia in the country (5) |
| WALSH | Dylan ___ actor who plays Peter Sullivan in the 1994 film Nobody's Fool |
| BORIS | First post-Soviet president of Russia, in office from 1990 to 1999 (5,7) |
| DAYLE | The seventh actor to play Peter Beale in Eastenders (5,6) |
| ROLLO | Viking leader who received the district that formed the basis of the duchy of Normandy from Charles III of France (5) |
| DUNST | Actress who plays Peter Parker's love Mary Jane in Spider-Man, Kirsten ___ |
| PUTIN | Former KGB agent who became president of Russia in 2012 |
| GAUNT | John of ---, son of Edward III of England who died in 1399 (5) |
| WARANDPEACE | Leo Tolstoy's blockbuster account of Russia in the time of Napoleon's expansion through Europe (3,3,5) |
| NEMEROV | Alexander ___ (president of Russia in "The Sum of All Fears") |
| HENRY | Eldest son of John of Gaunt and grandson of King Edward III of England (5) |
| UKRAINE | This country faces extremes of Russia in the east (7) |
| KELLY | Oscar-winning actress who married Prince Rainier III of Monaco in 1956 (5) |
| DANCE | Ballet suite from Act III of 1876 Amilcare Ponchielli opera La Gioconda (5,2,3,5) |
