| Parents' driveway hazard | 28 |
| Baseball hitting feat: sl. | 26 |
| Tour de France entrant | 22 |
| Tour de France competitor | 25 |
| Presoak, wash and rinse | 23 |
| What washers go through | 23 |
| Three-wheeled rickshaw | 22 |
| Three-wheeled Asian cab | 23 |
| Human-powered Eastern cab | 25 |
| One of Fred's partners | 26 |
| The Ugly Duckling, e.g. | 23 |
| Geometric shape: abbr. | 22 |
| Piston's place: Abbr. | 25 |
| One-eighth pt. of a V-8 | 23 |
| It may be crashed on cue | 24 |
| One of a drum set pair | 22 |
| Crash or ride in a drum kit | 27 |
| Part of a drummer's gear | 28 |
| Drummer's crashers | 22 |
| Suspiciously skeptical sort | 27 |
| Critic of the selfless | 22 |
| Someone who is a tough sell | 27 |
| Scornful, negative sort | 23 |
| One with a critical attitude | 28 |
| One who assumes the worst | 25 |
| Negative sort of person | 23 |
| Ambrose Bierce, notably | 23 |
| Snarky, minus the humor | 23 |
| Critically contemptuous | 23 |
| They don't believe it | 25 |
| They're tough to convince | 29 |
| Mediterranean island republic | 29 |
| 1964-74 peacekeeping mission | 28 |
| Hero known for his nose | 23 |
| First name in big noses | 23 |
| Duelist/poet of literature | 26 |
| De Bergerac with the nose | 25 |
| 1994 Best Musical nominee | 25 |
| Saint of the Russian alphabet | 29 |
| Literary critic Connolly | 24 |
| Dermatologist's removal | 27 |
| Dermatological diagnosis | 24 |
| Dermatological concern | 22 |
| Dermatologist's diagnosis | 29 |
| Target of some surgery | 22 |
| It might come to a boil | 23 |
| Dermatologist's concerns | 28 |
| Dermatologists' subjects | 28 |
| Dermatologists' concerns | 28 |
| It means "cell" | 25 |
| Winter Palace resident | 22 |
| Boris Godunov, for one | 22 |
| Former Russian autocrat | 23 |
| Ivan the Terrible, e.g. | 23 |
| Peter the Great, for one | 24 |
| Nicholas II was the last one | 28 |
| Former Russian emperor | 22 |
| Word with drug or energy | 24 |
| Pre-revolutionary ruler | 23 |
| Pre-Communist Russian ruler | 27 |
| Powerful business leader | 24 |
| One with great authority | 24 |
| Grand duke's father | 23 |
| Father of a grand duke | 22 |
| White House policy honcho | 25 |
| White House policy appointee | 28 |
| White House appointment | 23 |
| Unelected political bigwig | 26 |
| Title not used after 1917 | 25 |
| Task force chief, sometimes | 27 |
| Rasputin's employer, e.g. | 29 |
| Powerful business-person | 24 |
| Political leader, informally | 28 |
| Person with unlimited power | 27 |
| Person exercising power | 23 |
| One standing out in a field? | 28 |
| Industrial mogul, e.g. | 22 |
| Grand duchess's father | 26 |
| Former Russian emperor (var.) | 29 |
| Father of a grand duchess | 25 |
| Executive branch V.I.P. | 23 |
| Drug-fighting authority | 23 |
| Certain Obama appointee | 23 |
| Catherine the Great, e.g. | 25 |
| Russian royalty, pre-1917 | 25 |
| Spouse of Ivan or Peter | 23 |
| Catherine or Elizabeth, e.g. | 28 |
| Winter Palace residents | 23 |
| Early Eurasian leaders | 22 |
| Nicholas I and Alexander I | 26 |
| Crest-fallen Russians? | 22 |
| Ivan, Nicholas and Peter | 24 |
| Ivan the Terrible, et al. | 25 |
| Emperors of White Russia | 24 |
| Tom Stoppard, by birth | 22 |
| Language related to Slovak | 26 |
| Country divided in 1993 | 23 |
| Composer Dvorák et al. | 25 |
| Apply with a light touch | 24 |
| Do some fingerpainting | 22 |