| NUTCRACKER | The ___ is a ballet first. performed in Russia in December 1892. (10) |
| GISELLE | Peasant girl in the title of a ballet first performed in 1841 (7) |
| OSTROVSKY | Playwright, 1823-1886, whose work is still widely read and performed in Russia (9) |
| JETE | What is a ballet leap in which the dancer's weight is transferred from one foot to the other? (4) |
| TUTU | This is a ballet skirt (4) |
| PAS | It is a ballet step but not in France (3) |
| LABAYADERE | Minkus ballet first performed in St Petersburg in 1887 (2,8) |
| GARYPOWERS | Pilot of the US U-2 spy plane shot down in Russia in 1960 (4,6) |
| GUYBURGESS | Which English spy and traitor died in Russia in 1963? (3,7) |
| BEAUTY | The Sleeping _ _ _ _ _ _ , ballet first performed in 1890 with music by Russian composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky (6) |
| TRIPLEECHO | The ____ is a 1972 film based on an HE Bates novella, starring Glenda Jackson, Brian Deacon and Oliver Reed |
| SWANLAKE | Tchaikovsky ballet first performed by the Bolshoi Ballet in 1877 (4,4) |
| THEFIREBIRD | Stravinsky ballet first performed in 1910 (3,8) |
| SLEEPINGBEAUTY | Tchaikovsky ballet first performed in 1890 (8,6) |
| RODEO | Aaron Copland ballet first performed in 1942 (5) |
| ALAMO | The ___ is a mission in Texas which was the site of a siege in 1836 (5) |
| OCTOBER | ___ Revolution, another name for the Bolshevik uprising in Russia in the autumn of 1917 (7) |
| EMPTYSET | In maths, the union of A with the ____ is A |
| LADYOFSHALOTT | The ____ is a Tennyson ballad about a young noblewoman trapped in a tower |
| TSAR | An emperor in Russia in former times (His wife was a Tsarina) (4) |
