| Old German state's leader leaves country |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
09 Mar 2026 |
| Country, reportedly one that moves swiftly (6) |
The Guardian Quiptic |
08 Mar 2026 |
| Country tune on the rise across American South |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
02 Jan 2026 |
| Moscow's country |
Commuter |
19 Dec 2025 |
| Someone hurrying, some might say, in Putin's home (6) |
The Sun Two Speed |
14 Dec 2025 |
| Birthplace of matryoshka dolls |
USA Today |
17 Oct 2025 |
| The ____ House, John le Carré novel |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
10 Sep 2025 |
| Country India is in discussions with to enhance fertiliser exports amid supply chain pressures. (6) |
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| One with no time to spare, we may hear, in the country |
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| From ______ With Love, film (6) |
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| Nation that offered cash incentives to pregnant school-girls under a 02 Jul 2025 decree. (6) |
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| Country that could provide us with sari? |
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| Putin's country |
The Sun Two Speed |
05 Jul 2025 |
| USA sir? That could be another place! |
The Sun Two Speed |
05 Jul 2025 |
| Nation supplying increasing amounts of oil to India, surpassing Middle Eastern imports, as reported in trade data. (6) |
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| Country, capital Moscow (6) |
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| This country curiously is not 86A, sir, (6) |
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| Nation with eleven time zones (6) |
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| Team knocked out of the 2018 World Cup quaner-finals by Croatia (6) |
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| Murmansk's country |
The Telegraph Quick |
26 Apr 2025 |
| Moscow is its capital (6) |
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| Tolstoy's country of birth (6) |
The Guardian Quick |
13 Mar 2025 |
| Moskvitch country (6) |
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| Alaska's former owner |
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| This country sounds like one in a hurry |
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| Airs broadcast about American in Putin's place (6) |
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| Vladivostok's country (6) |
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| Catherine the Great's country (6) |
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| Tsarist country revolutionary leader is back in the States (6) |
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| Moscow is here |
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| The country is not the USA, sir |
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| Country that's home to Red Square |
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| 2018 FIFA World Cup hosts (6) |
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| Moscow is there |
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| Where Muscovites are capitalists? (6) |
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| The country with Moscow (6) |
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| Big country ousted leader of its former ally (6) |
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| From ___ with Love, 1963 Bond film starring Sean Connery (6) |
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| Its currency is the ruble |
USA Today |
19 Oct 2024 |
| James Bond film, From _ with Love (6) |
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| Where, abroad, you'll see us in a form of sari (6) |
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| Republic whose capital is Moscow (6) |
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| Vast country |
The Telegraph Quick |
30 Sep 2024 |
| Moscow country (6) |
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| Us put on airs? In that country? (6) |
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| World's largest country by area |
The Telegraph Quick |
16 Sep 2024 |
| Prussian extremists unwelcome in former Soviet Union (6) |
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| Hosts of the 2018 FIFA World Cup (6) |
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| Russians live here (6) |
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| Where the American may appear in a sari? (6) |
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| Cyprus (Siamese) found in this country (6) |
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| Person in a hurry read out scene of War and Peace |
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| Realm of the tsars (6) |
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| Outspoken country sprinter (6) |
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| Country whose leaders once came from the Rurik dynasty |
The Times Specialist Sunday |
23 Jun 2024 |
| "Fiddler on the Roof" setting |
New York Times |
19 Jun 2024 |
| From ______ with Love, 1963 007 movie (6) |
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| USA, sir, is another country entirely |
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| Sean Connery movie, The ... House |
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| Chagall's birthplace |
Newsday |
26 Apr 2024 |
| Sir, USA is not quite Kremlin country (6) |
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| Country's outspoken sprinter (6) |
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| Yeltsin's domain |
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| Country person moving too quickly by all accounts (6) |
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| Trip round USA sir? Or some other place? (6) |
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| Federation of republics |
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| Saint Petersburg is there |
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| Soundly expedite a country |
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| It filled the house for a Connery film |
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| Country to which Tucker Carlson recently traveled |
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| One in a hurry, apparently, to get to the country (6) |
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| Largest country of then Soviet Union |
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| Undoubtedly upsetting to the U.S.A., sir! (6) |
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| Worlds largest country (6) |
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| Country that attacked Ukraine (6) |
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| Quite likely to disturb U.S.A., sir! (6) |
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| Putin is its current person in charge |
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| Large nation |
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| Rolling broadcast about American sierra, vast country (6) |
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| From -, with Love ; James Bond novel (6) |
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| Name of the country (6) |
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| Country using roubles |
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| The R in 15 |
The Guardian Weekend |
30 Sep 2023 |
| 23-Across's realm |
LA Times Daily |
13 Apr 2023 |
| Country that seized 8-Down in 2014 |
New York Times |
28 Mar 2023 |
| Finland neighbor |
Thomas Joseph |
11 Oct 2022 |
| Moscow's land |
Eugene Sheffer |
06 Sep 2022 |
| Country |
The Times Concise |
26 Jul 2022 |
| Moscow's country |
Newsday |
07 Jun 2022 |
| Aggressor starts to raid Ukraine, still stuck in action |
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| Aggressor starts to raid Ukraine, still stuck in action |
The Guardian Quiptic |
23 May 2022 |
| In northern Asia and eastern Europe |
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| Verbally, one suddenly attacking country |
The Guardian Cryptic |
08 Apr 2022 |
| The largest country in the world |
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| Large country |
The Times Concise |
24 Jan 2022 |
| Land of the tsars |
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| Land of the tsars |
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| Mendeleev's homeland |
LA Times Daily |
19 Nov 2021 |
| Land of the tsars |
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| Where to buy nesting dolls |
Newsday |
21 Oct 2021 |
| Nation in a Fleming title |
LA Times Daily |
10 Oct 2021 |
| Nation in a Fleming title |
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| US air's bad in this country |
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| USA is right about this de-facto dictatorial state |
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| Country's leader of Republicans is back, protected by another country |
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| Moscow's country |
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| Land one flying, over the radio |
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| Land of the tsars |
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| "___ on Ice," 2000 song by rock band Porcupine Tree from their album "Lightbulb Sun" |
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| Country taking power from an older one |
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| Finland neighbor |
Thomas Joseph |
15 May 2021 |
| Turns up in Calais sur-Mer in a state |
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| Transcontinental country |
The Telegraph Quick |
02 Mar 2021 |
| Country associated with onion domes |
Universal |
18 Feb 2021 |
| US air's bad in this country |
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| Soviet country |
The Telegraph Quick |
20 Jan 2021 |
| Moscow's country |
Newsday |
18 Jan 2021 |
| Land of the tsars |
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| Going all the way back in unfinished support boat to old city state |
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| State, traditionally powerful one, withdrawing quietly |
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| Cosmonaut's home |
LA Times Daily |
03 May 2020 |
| Cosmonaut's home |
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| About a ninth of Earth’s land |
Wall Street Journal |
22 Apr 2020 |
| Most of Dublin seaside town school returning first class from the country |
|
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| 'Crime and Punishment' country |
USA Today |
16 Mar 2020 |
| Leader of old kingdom leaves country |
|
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| American footballer called for country |
|
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| Country which hosts the Formula 1 race at the Sochi Autodrom |
|
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| US air's bad in the country |
|
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| Putin's land |
Eugene Sheffer |
09 Oct 2019 |
| Land of the tzars |
|
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| Nod from dinosaurs in eastern Europe |
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| Begins to leave agribusiness in Eastern Europe |
|
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| Where to spend kopeks |
Universal |
04 Jun 2019 |
| Eurasian country which has the highest forest cover with 2,997,157 square miles of area |
|
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| Country person wasting no time in conversation? |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
13 Apr 2019 |
| Eurasian country |
The Telegraph Quick |
02 Mar 2019 |
| 2014 Winter Olympics host |
USA Today |
01 Mar 2019 |
| Country game, played as is |
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| Country airs active round America |
|
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| Where to spend kopeks |
|
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| 2014 Winter Olympics host |
|
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| Strain rising when helm of Ukrainian ship caught by neighbour |
The Telegraph Toughie |
28 Dec 2018 |
| Airs broadcast across America and part of Eastern Europe |
|
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| Large country |
The Times Concise |
11 Dec 2018 |
| Old European kingdom loses head with Georgian neighbour |
|
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| Airs broadcast around America - the world's largest country? |
|
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| 1867 seller of Alaska |
|
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| Dilettante leaves industrial estate in Eastern Europe |
|
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| Sport is as frenzied in the country |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
25 Aug 2018 |
| Airbrushes out Herb and Georgia's neighbour |
|
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| Where one spends 4 Across |
|
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| Powerhouse in Olympic weightlifting |
New York Times |
09 Mar 2018 |
| See 3-Down |
|
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| See 3-Down |
LA Times Daily |
28 Feb 2018 |
| Neighbor of Norway and North Korea |
|
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| 1867 seller of Alaska |
|
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| Where one spends 4 Across |
|
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| See 3-Down |
|
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| Powerhouse in Olympic weightlifting |
|
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| Moscow's country |
Universal |
29 Dec 2017 |
| Volgograd's land |
Universal |
09 Dec 2017 |
| Austrians with no tan found in 8 and 10 across |
|
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| Country with old European kingdom needs no introduction |
|
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| 64-Across's realm |
|
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| 64-Across's realm |
LA Times Daily |
11 May 2017 |
| Country where you may see us in exotic sari |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
06 Feb 2017 |
| 64-Across's realm |
|
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| Volgograd's land |
|
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| Moscow's country |
|
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| Cosmonaut's country |
USA Today |
26 Sep 2016 |
| Nation with a white, blue and red flag |
Wall Street Journal |
25 Jun 2016 |
| Putin's place |
Thomas Joseph |
04 Jun 2016 |
| Country, one not being meticulous, might you say? |
The Telegraph Toughie |
01 Mar 2016 |
| Country quietly abandoning its old ally |
The Times Cryptic |
29 Feb 2016 |
| Cosmonaut's country |
|
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| USSR disintegrated, primarily into a different country |
|
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| Artist draws in most of old empire on island with Georgian neighbour |
|
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| Moscow's land |
USA Today |
02 Sep 2015 |
| Secularist drops Celt with Asian neighbour |
|
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| Its flag is.. |
Wall Street Journal |
29 Jun 2015 |
| A leather article is certainly short from the bottom |
|
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| Moscow's place |
USA Today |
26 Apr 2015 |
| Country that could trouble USA, sir! |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
27 Mar 2015 |
| Country one's attacking in report? |
The Telegraph Toughie |
13 Jan 2015 |
| Moscow's place |
|
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| Moscow's land |
|
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| Lenin's country |
|
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| Yul Brynner's birthplace |
|
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| Land on two continents |
|
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| DDT homeland |
|
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| Largest nation |
|
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| 007 title country |
|
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| Don's place |
|
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| Where Yeltsin ruled |
|
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| Georgia neighbor |
|
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| Georgia neighbor |
|
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| Two-continent country |
|
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| Putin's land |
|
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| Omsk's land |
|
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| Country that once owned Alaska |
|
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| Vladimir Putin's country |
|
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| Moscow's country |
|
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| "From ___ with Love" |
|
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| More than one-ninth of the earth's land |
|
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| Putin place |
|
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| Country in which Tetris was created |
|
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| Vladimir Putin's country |
|
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| "From ___ With Love" (Bond flick) |
|
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| Country in which Tetris was created |
|
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| Moscow's land |
|
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| Country in which Tetris was created |
|
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| Stravinsky's homeland |
|
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| Seller of Alaska in 1867 |
|
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| Putin place |
|
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| Napoleonic Wars combatant |
|
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| Largest country |
|
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| Yeltsin's bailiwick |
|
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| Omsk's land |
|
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| Putin's place |
|
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| Putin's place |
|
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| Putin place |
|
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| Japan foe of 1904-5 |
|
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| Seller of Alaska in 1867 |
|
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| Isaac Asimov's birthplace |
|
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| Efrem Zimbalist's birthplace |
|
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| Where 24-Down is |
|
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| Putin's place |
|
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| Pasternak's homeland |
|
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| "From ___ with Love" |
|
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| "From ___ With Love" |
|
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| "Anna Karenina" setting |
|
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| Seller of Alaska, 1867 |
|
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| Mother __ |
|
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| "From __ With Love" |
|
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| Putin's nation |
|
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| "From __ With Love" |
|
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| Chagall's homeland |
|
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| Putin's land |
|
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| Chagall's homeland |
|
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| Putin's land |
|
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| One of the R's in the USSR |
|
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| Finland neighbor |
|
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| Largest part of the USSR |
|
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| Where the Don flows |
|
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| Putin's place |
|
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| "From _____ With Love" (Bond flick) |
|
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| World's largest country |
|
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| Where St. Petersburg is |
|
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| Japan foe of 1904-05 |
|
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| Yeltsin's bailiwick |
|
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| Bear country |
|
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| A Triple Entente land |
|
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| "From ___ with Love" |
|
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| Where Peter was great |
|
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| Gogol's land |
|
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| Churchill's "enigma" |
|
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| Kind of leather |
|
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| United Nation. |
|
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| Bear who eats Werewolves. |
|
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| Home of the Muscovites. |
|
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| Eurasian country. |
|
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| The big question mark. |
|
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| One-sixth of the earth's land surface. |
|
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| Lenin's "Land of Milk and Honey." |
|
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| One of the Big Three. |
|
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| Interested observer in Asia. |
|
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| One of the "Big Four." |
|
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| Eurasian land. |
|
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| Where Uzbek is. |
|
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| Breakwater for the Nazi tide. |
|
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| Land of the troika. |
|
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| Fighting land of Rurik. |
|
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| Troika country. |
|
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| Country of 19 Across. |
|
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| Country with more than 190,000,000 people. |
|
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| The Bear. |
|
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| Slav's land. |
|
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| Country of the purge. |
|
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| Bastion of ballet. |
|
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| See 21 Across. |
|
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| One of the Brussels Fair exhibitors. |
|
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| Bohlen's post. |
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