| EMIL | ___ Ludwig, biographer of Stalin, Napoleon, Goethe, and others |
| THEANDRIC | Divine and human characters displayed by Goethe and Richardson |
| WEIMAR | City where Bach, Goethe, and Marlene |
| ARMANDO | And 23 Scottish comedy writer and director whose films include The Death of Stalin (7.8) |
| EMILLUDWIG | Biographer of Goethe, Napoleon, et al. |
| FRASER | Antonia ---, biographer of Mary, Queen of Scots and Marie Antoinette |
| CLAIRETOMALIN | Biographer of Austen, Dickens and Wollstonecraft, amongst others (6,7) |
| GEORG | Storied officer __ Ludwig von Trapp |
| EATS | "A human being is what he ___": Ludwig Feuerbach (4) |
| ALEXANDER | ___ Ludwig The Hunger Games actor who stars in the 2023 film The Covenant |
| KIROV | A leader of the Russian Revolution, friend of Stalin, shot dead in 1934 (5) |
| BERIA | Lavrentiy ?, Soviet chief of secret police portrayed by Simon Russell Beale in 2017 film comedy The Death of Stalin |
| SIMONRUSSELLBEALE | Actor whose roles include that of Beria in Armando Ianucci's The Death of Stalin (2017) |
| ANDREA | Riseborough, actress who played Stalin's daughter in 2017 film The Death Of Stalin (6) |
| IANNUCCI | Scottish comedy writer and director whose films include The Death of Stalin (7.8) |
| PURGE | Get rid of, Stalin style |
| REDHEAD | Titian portrait of Stalin perhaps |
| KINDRED | Like someone the opposite of Stalin, say? |
| PALIN | Python Michael seen in The Death Of Stalin (5) |
| INRE | Concerning the legal case of Stalin, rearmament offers coverage (2,2) |
