| NABOKOV | Vladimir ___, author of The Luzhin Defence (1930) (7) |
| KRAMNIK | Vladimir ___, winner of the 2006 FIDE World Chess Championship (7) |
| KISELYO | Vladimir ___, 1980 Olympic shot gold medallist (8) |
| TOD | "The Chronicles of Vladimir ___" (hit young adult book series about a vampire) |
| LENIN | Vladimir _, first premier of the Soviet Union (5) |
| ASHKENAZY | Vladimir ___, Russia-born Music Director of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra from 1987-94 (9) |
| SMICER | Vladimir ___, scorer of Liverpool's second goal in the 2005 UEFA Champions League Final |
| PUTIN | Vladimir ___, president of Russia from 2000-08 and since 2012 (5) |
| TARASENKO | Vladimir ___ , pictured, is with St. Louis |
| KUTS | Vladimir ___, 1956 Olympic 5,000m and 10,000m gold medallist (4) |
| LABANT | Vladimir ___ , Slovakia defender with West Ham from 2002-03 (6) |
| IVIC | Vladimir _, Al-Ain head coach (4) |
| STOJKOVIC | Vladimir ___, 2006-2018 Serbia, 2014-2016 Maccabi Haifa and 2016-2017 Nottingham Forest goalkeeper (9) |
| KRAMKIK | Vladimir, winner of the 2006 FIDE World Chess Championship (7) |
| SAMOVAR | Mould aroma's cut by initialisation of Vladimir Putin's boiler? (7) |
| DESPAIR | 1978 Rainer Werner Fassbinder film starring Dirk Bogarde, based on a novel of the same name by Vladimir Nabokov |
| GEORGIA | Country managed by Vladimir Weiss from 2016 (7) |
| KREMLIN | Where Vladimir Putin's office is, with "the" |
| PIANIST | Vladimir Horowitz or Oscar Peterson, e.g. (7) |
| THEGIFT | Vladimir Nabokov novel written in the 1930s whose central character is Fyodor Godunovcherdyntsev (3,4) |
