| SPARRED | Pole and Russian fought together |
| TROUBLE | Turkish capital and Russian currency in bother (7) |
| GORECKI | Polish composer and Russian writer talked about touring the City (7) |
| NATASHA | Orange Is the New Black and Russian Doll actress, ___ Lyonne (7) |
| POLTAVA | City in Ukraine, scene of a 1709 battle between Swedish and Russian armies (7) |
| SEVIGNY | Chloe ___, actress whose TV credits include Big Love and Russian Doll (7) |
| BLENDIN | Bishop and Russian leader hosting duke mix easily (5,2) |
| EQUATOR | Imaginary line equidistant from the North Pole and the South Pole (7) |
| RUSSIAN | One next to Pole and another first off (7) |
| SPARROW | Get pole and use boat to find bird (7) |
| SABBATH | Pole and famous Swedes teach outsiders of holy day (7) |
| MAGNETS | Pieces of metal, once known as lodestones, with a south pole and a north pole |
| ROWLAND | Oliver -, Briton who took pole and finished second in the 2019 Sanya ePrix in China (7) |
| ENSLAVE | Subjugate Pole and eastern European, previous night's catch |
| PERGOLA | Pole and rag worked to form garden feature |
| BARBELL | Weightlifting equipment consists of pole and hollow metal instrument |
| SARACEN | A contest between two Poles and old Arab (7) |
| SLALOMS | Poles and they are all downhill with these (7) |
| STEPHEN | Colbert who wrote "I Am a Pole (And So Can You!)" |
| UTENSIL | Use this knife to hack up Swede, Indian, Poles, and even bits of girls! (7) |
