| KANDINSKY | Wassily -, artist born in Moscow in 1866, a pioneer of abstraction (9) |
| KENIN | Sofia ___, U.S. tennis player born in Moscow who won the 2020 Australian Open women's singles (5) |
| COMINTERN | International Communist organization founded by Lenin in Moscow in 1919 (9) |
| COLDFRONT | What Napoleon encountered in Moscow in 1812 was forecasted? (4,5) |
| TOLERANCE | Understanding Spanish encouragement in state of abstraction |
| REDSQUARE | UNESCO World Heritage Site (1990) in central Moscow in which Lenin's Mausoleum is located (3,6) |
| BARNARDOS | Children's charity founded in 1866 (9) |
| KENT | Rockwell, recipient of the Lenin Peace Prize in Moscow in 1967 (4) |
| REVERIE | Minister of religion by lake in a state of abstraction |
| USSR | What song (Back in the ___) did Paul McCartney perform in Moscow in 2003? (1,1,1,1) |
| POLITKOVSKAYA | Anna ___, Russian journalist murdered in Moscow in 2006 (13) |
| SMIRNOFF | Vodka brand founded in Moscow in 1864 (8) |
| UNCLEVANYA | Play by Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov premiered in Moscow in 1899 (5,5) |
| RASPUTIN | Mystic Russian monk murdered in Moscow in 1916 (8) |
| WIND | Breeze found in Moscow in downtown region (4) |
| BOLSHOI | Russian ballet company founded in Moscow in 1776 (7) |
| TRANCE | Canter around in a state of abstraction (6) |
| TRANCES | States of abstraction display vestiges of new intervention (7) |
| THIEVERY | One engaged in the actual job of abstraction |
| MCGEADY | Aiden ___, Falkirk-born Republic of Ireland winger who joined Everton from Spartak Moscow in 2014 |
