| STEPPES | The huge grasslands of Eurasia, chiefly in Ukraine and Russia (7) |
| TATAR | Member of a people living in Ukraine and Russia |
| GARRATT | Engineer for Beyer and Peacock of the huge 2-6-0+O-6-2 (7) |
| MAYBACH | Famous German marque behind the huge DS8 Zeppelin of the 1930s (7) |
| EPICURE | Rue the huge King's mill by a person of fastidious taste (7) |
| PRAIRIE | Wide grasslands of America's central belt (7) |
| REDWOOD | Badly worded ring on the huge tree (7) |
| ALGERIA | The huge-eared fennec fox is what country's national animal? (7) |
| LAUGHED | Was amused by the huge lumbering lad carrying (7) |
| MOLDOVA | Eastern European country, capital Chisinau, which borders Ukraine and Romania (7) |
| SAVANNA | What is an open grassland of tropical Africa? (7) |
| MAMMOTH | Mike with ammunition tailed the huge animal once |
| BELARUS | Country between Ukraine and Lithuania |
| KIEV | What was once the capital of Russia and is now the capital of the Ukraine and one of the oldest citi |
| PAMIR | Highland region of Tajikistan and Afghanistan from which several south-central Asian mountain ranges radiate, including the Hindu Kush and the Tian Shan. Its name refers to the grasslands of the easte |
| COSSACKS | Members of an ethnic group from Ukraine and Russia once famed as mounted soldiers (8) |
| LAYARD | In 1849, this explorer returned to Mesopotamia and continued excavations at Nineveh and Babylon, discovering in the process the huge library of Ashurbanipal, probably the earliest library ever created |
| USSR | Former nation that included current nations Ukraine and Russia: Abbr. |
| OTUS | Name that unites one of the gigantic Aloadae of Greek mythology with the genus of the small and dainty ear-tufted Scops owls of ornithology (4) |
| CHARNOZEM | Black soil rich in humus found in the grasslands of Russia (9) |
