| STALIN | Soviet leader who declined the invitation for Soviet participation in the 1948 Games in London (6) |
| FOOD | Post-war shortages meant athletes brought their own ___ to 1948 Games (4) |
| SARTRE | French exponent of existentialism, who declined the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1964 (6) |
| SWEDEN | Country that lost its supremacy as a superpower in the Baltic region to Peter the Great's Russia following disastrous participation in the Great Northern War (6) |
| NIKITA | ___ Khrushchev, Soviet leader who became his country's first head of state to visit the U.S. in 1959 (6) |
| BRANDO | Actor who declined to accept his Oscar for his role in The Godfather (6) |
| LAGAAN | SRK declined the lead role in this 2001 cricket movie set in British-ruled India, which Aamir Khan later starred in. (6) |
| LEONID | ____ Brezhnev, Soviet leader who succeeded Nikita Khrushchev in 1964 (6) |
| UPHIGH | Invitation for a celebratory gesture formed by a synonym for "skyward" + a word sounds like an informal greeting: 2 wds. |
| CHOPIN | Charlie's invitation for a ride to a composer (6) |
| SAIDNO | Declined the offer |
| JEANPAULSARTRE | French writer and existentialist philosopher who declined the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1964 (4-4,6) |
| ASKSTO | Sends an invitation for |
| ATHOME | Open invitation for visitors (2-4) |
| BORIS | _ Pasternak, writer who declined the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1958 (5) |
| CRUELSUMMER | Peter Ueberroth won Time Magazine's Person of the Year in 1984 for organizing the L.A. Olympics, but it was a ___ for Soviet Bloc athletes, whose countries boycotted the Games |
| HUMPHREYBOGART | He was Fred C. Dobbs in the 1948 movie, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (8,6) |
| LEMON | Bob who was a pitcher in the 1948 World Series and a manager in the 1978 World Series |
| BOB | "The Heater from Van Meter" Feller who pitched for Cleveland in the 1948 World Series |
| BRESTLITOVSK | Name given to the treaty signed by the Bolsheviks and the Central Powers to end Russia's participation in the first world war (5-7) |
