| KREMLIN | Citadel in Moscow (with "The") |
| THEKREMLIN | Citadel in Moscow containing the offices of the Russian government (3,7) |
| ACROPOLIS | The -; ancient citadel in Athens, site of the Parthenon (9) |
| IDENTICAL | The very same citadel in disarray (9) |
| VASSALL | John ___, a clerk in the British embassy in Moscow, coerced to spy for the Soviets in the 1950s (7) |
| NEWCASTLE | Recently discovered citadel in place on 11 |
| KASBAH | Citadel in, for example, Algiers (6) |
| DIALECT | New citadel, in a manner of speaking (7) |
| MACHU | ___ Picchu Incan citadel in Peru |
| OPERA | Type of drama set to music at the Palais Garnier in Paris, La Scala in Milan or the Bolshoi in Moscow, for example (5) |
| REDSQUARE | English name of the plaza in Moscow next to the Kremlin known in Russian as Krasnaya Ploshchad(3,6) |
| EDWINMOSES | This American hurdler won gold in 1976 and 1984, but couldn't compete at the 1980 Games in Moscow owing to a U.S. boycott over the Afghan War |
| LUBYANKA | Popular name for the headquarters of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation in Moscow |
| CYRILLIC | Like the alphabet in Moscow ... or each letter in the starred answers |
| SHARRONDAVIES | TV presenter who won a silver medal in the 400 metre individual medley at the 1980 Olympics in Moscow |
| ENISLED | Erected citadels in Europe, somewhat isolated |
| SAVIOUR | Cathedral of Christ the ......., rebuilt church near the Kremlin in Moscow (7) |
| OVERT | Steve ---, British athlete who won the 800m at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow (5) |
| DANILOV | Monastery in Moscow that serves as the headquarters of the Russian Orthodox Church (7) |
| KENT | Rockwell, recipient of the Lenin Peace Prize in Moscow in 1967 (4) |
