| It dissolved in Dec. 1991 | 25 |
| It ceased to be in Dec. 1991 | 28 |
| It broke up in Dec. 1991 | 24 |
| Initialism in a Beatles title | 29 |
| Home of chess champs, once | 26 |
| Gymnast Korbut's homeland | 29 |
| Gromyko's land: Abbr. | 25 |
| Gp. dissolved 12/26/1991 | 24 |
| Gorbachev's former domain | 29 |
| Gorbachev's empire | 22 |
| Former world power, shortly | 27 |
| Former world power, for short | 29 |
| Former Soviet Union, abbr. | 26 |
| Former Russian nation: Abbr. | 28 |
| Former Olympics powerhouse | 26 |
| Former Eurasian superpower | 26 |
| Former communist state | 22 |
| Former cold-war antagonist | 26 |
| Eurasian nation: Abbr. | 22 |
| Erstwhile empire, in brief | 26 |
| Empire until 1991: Abbr. | 24 |
| Country in a Beatles title | 26 |
| Country in a Beatle song | 24 |
| Country founded in 1922 | 23 |
| Country estab. in 1922 | 22 |
| Cosigner of the ABM Treaty | 26 |
| Communist powerhouse, once | 26 |
| Cold War-era map abbr. | 22 |
| Cold War rival of the USA | 25 |
| Cold War rival (Abbr.) | 22 |
| Cold War power, briefly | 23 |
| Cold War opponent: Abbr. | 24 |
| Cold war foe, for short | 23 |
| Cold War faction (Abbr.) | 24 |
| Cold War empire, briefly | 24 |
| CCCP was on its stamps | 22 |
| CCCP on 20th-century maps | 25 |
| Buryat Republic's locale | 28 |
| Boycotter of the L.A. Games | 27 |
| Boycotter in 1984 headlines | 27 |
| BOAC destination, in song | 25 |
| Bloc that dissolved in 1991 | 27 |
| Big blotch on old maps | 22 |
| Atlas abbr. before 1991 | 23 |
| Abbr. in outdated atlases | 25 |
| 1980 Winter Olympics host | 25 |
| 1980 Summer Olympics host | 25 |
| "Red" initials | 24 |
| Initials on an American ship | 28 |
| American ship initials | 22 |
| LA and MI, but not DO or RE | 27 |
| Pittsburgh skyscraper builder | 29 |
| J.P. Morgan enterprise | 22 |
| J.P. Morgan founded it | 22 |
| J.P. Morgan co-founded it | 25 |
| J. P. Morgan founded it | 23 |
| It's X on the NYSE ticker | 29 |
| Co. founded by J.P. Morgan | 26 |
| Bargain on metal stock? | 23 |
| River bordering Manchuria | 25 |
| Arthur Ashe Stadium org. | 24 |
| Org. known for court battles | 28 |
| Org. for the Williams sisters | 29 |
| Org. for Sampras and Roddick | 28 |
| Org. concerned with rackets | 27 |
| Logo at Arthur Ashe Stadium | 27 |
| Flushing Meadows initials | 25 |
| Arthur Ashe Stadium gp. | 23 |
| Yucatán "you" | 26 |
| You, in the Yucatán | 22 |
| You, on the Yucatán | 22 |
| Peso spender's pronoun | 26 |
| St. Paul-to-Fargo rte. | 22 |
| St. Paul-to-Fargo hwy. | 22 |
| Road through the Twin Cities | 28 |
| Old Detroit-to-Seattle hwy. | 27 |
| Minneapolis-to-Fargo hwy. | 25 |
| ___ nad Labem, Czech port | 25 |
| ___ nad Labem, Czech city | 25 |
| Six-time portrayer of Poirot | 28 |
| Frequent Poirot portrayer | 25 |
| Author of "Dear Me" | 29 |
| Actor Peter and family | 22 |
| '64 event for the Beatles | 29 |
| Rock band's circuit | 23 |
| Cross-country trip, say | 23 |
| 1964 event for the Beatles | 26 |
| It make a lot of dollars | 24 |
| Discolored, as by a burn | 24 |
| As a rule, in the dict. | 23 |
| Most of the time: abbr. | 23 |
| As a rule, in the dict. | 24 |
| That which is expected | 22 |
| "Business as ___" | 27 |
| "The ___ Suspects" | 28 |
| What Cyndi Lauper was not | 25 |
| The ___ (customary order) | 25 |
| Regular's bar order | 23 |
| __ suspects: same old crowd | 27 |
| Drinks for bar regulars | 23 |