| Abbr. before some state names | 29 |
| Abbr. before many state names | 29 |
| Memorable target: 12/7/41 | 25 |
| Destroyer in 2000 headlines | 27 |
| Historic sight at Boston | 24 |
| Where the V.P. is Pres. | 23 |
| Gp. with Boxer and Byrd | 23 |
| Century in Amer. politics | 25 |
| Clay or Webster, briefly | 24 |
| A "bird farm" | 23 |
| Ill-fated 1940s warship | 23 |
| Historic W.W. II battleship | 27 |
| Newsworthy launch of 1954 | 25 |
| Where the FBI operates | 22 |
| Brezhnev's initials? | 24 |
| "Back in the ___" | 27 |
| Cold War adversary: Abbr. | 25 |
| Cold War country: Abbr. | 23 |
| 1984 Summer Games boycotter | 27 |
| World power until 1991 | 22 |
| Locale in a Beatles song | 24 |
| Gorbachev's nation | 22 |
| Cold War nation (Abbr.) | 23 |
| Warsaw Treaty Org. member | 25 |
| Sputnik's birthplace | 24 |
| SALT talks participant | 22 |
| Political org. until 1991 | 25 |
| Outdated globe letters | 22 |
| Nation that dissolved in 1991 | 29 |
| Nation in Dec. 1991 news | 24 |
| Lenin's land, for short | 27 |
| Gorby's former domain | 25 |
| Former world power, briefly | 27 |
| Cold War empire: Abbr. | 22 |
| Atlas abbr. until 1991 | 22 |
| 1984 summer Olympics no-show | 28 |
| '84 Olympics boycotter | 26 |
| World power until 1991: Abbr. | 29 |
| World power until '91 | 25 |
| Where Kazakhstan was, once | 26 |
| Warsaw Pact country (Abbr.) | 27 |
| Superpower that split up | 24 |
| Sputnik launcher (Abbr.) | 24 |
| Red giant now in pieces? | 24 |
| Red giant now broken up | 23 |
| Pre-'91 superpower | 22 |
| Notable breakup of 1991 | 23 |
| Notable break-up of 1991 | 24 |
| Nikita's realm, once | 24 |
| Letters on an old Asian map | 27 |
| Letters for an ex-superpower | 28 |
| Khrushchev's country | 24 |
| It dissolved in December 1991 | 29 |
| It broke up in 1991: Abbr. | 26 |
| Gorby's domain, once | 24 |
| Gorbachev's land: Abbr. | 27 |
| Georgia used to be part of it | 29 |
| Former world power (Abbr.) | 26 |
| Former communist country | 24 |
| Country in a Beatles song | 25 |
| Cold War country (Abbr.) | 24 |
| Brezhnev's land, in brief | 29 |
| Biggest breakup of 1991 | 23 |
| 1984 Olympics boycotter | 23 |
| 'Back in the --' | 24 |
| World's largest land | 24 |
| World's largest country | 27 |
| Where the Ussuri flows | 22 |
| Where the Dnieper flows | 23 |
| Where Kalinin was pres. | 23 |
| Warsaw Pact participant | 23 |
| Warsaw Pact member (Abbr.) | 26 |
| USA rival in the Cold War | 25 |
| USÂ’ cold-war adversary | 26 |
| UN member until '91 | 23 |
| U.N. Security Council member | 28 |
| U.N. member until 1991 | 22 |
| U.N. member through 1991 | 24 |
| Superpower's initials | 25 |
| Subj. of a 1991 breakup | 23 |
| Stalin's land, in brief | 27 |
| Space-race participant | 22 |
| Russia was part of it: Abbr. | 28 |
| Russia was part of it (abbr.) | 29 |
| Rus., Ukr., etc., once | 22 |
| Red giant that disintegrated? | 29 |
| Pre-'91 world power | 23 |
| Powers' crash site: abbr. | 29 |
| Poland's neighbor: Abbr. | 28 |
| One-time Red giant (abbr.) | 26 |
| One of the Allies of W.W. II | 28 |
| Old atlas abbreviation | 22 |
| Moscow's fed., once | 23 |
| Locale in a Beatles title | 25 |
| Locale in a 1968 Beatles song | 29 |
| Letters on old Asian maps | 25 |
| Lenin's land: Abbr. | 23 |
| Korbut's homeland: Abbr. | 28 |
| Khrushchev's land: Abbr. | 28 |
| Khrushchev's concern | 24 |