| OGPU | The secret police of the Soviet Union from 1923 to 1934 (4) |
| LNER | Railway company which operated from London to the north east of Britain from 1923 to 1948 (abbr) (4) |
| INGE | Dean of St Paul's Cathedral from 1911 to 1934, the 'Gloomy Dean' (4) |
| BULGARIA | The KGB and the secret police of this Soviet-bloc nation were suspects in the death of Georgi Markov |
| ROMANIA | The secret police of this former eastern bloc country was the "Securitate", disbanded following the fall of its dictator in 1989 (7) |
| LOSS | Behold the secret police. They didn't have a win (4) |
| KISS | Potassium and iodine the secret police used for smack (4) |
| STASI | Secret police of the former German Democratic Republic (5) |
| EYES | Witnesses close to police, of course |
| GESTAPO | The secret police of Nazi Germany (7) |
| LEONID | General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1964 to 1982 (6,8) |
| BREZHNEV | General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1964 to 1982 (6,8) |
| LEONIDBREZHNEV | General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1964 to 1982 |
| KOSYGIN | Alexei ___, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union from 1964-80 (7) |
| MALENKOV | Georgy ?, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union from 1953-55 |
| ARMENIA | Landlocked country in the Caucasus of western Asia that was a constituent republic of the Soviet Union from 1936 to 1991 (7) |
| STALIN | Joseph ?, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1922-52 |
| YURIANDROPOV | President of the Soviet Union from 1983 to 1984 (4,8) |
| EASTBERLIN | Name given to areas of Europe occupied by the Soviet Union from 1949-1990 (4,6) |
| REDARMY | Military of the Soviet Union from 1918 to 1946, established by Leon Trotsky (3,4) |
