| NUREYEV | Thoroughbred who defected to the West? (7) |
| MANOWAR | Thoroughbred who won 20 of his 21 races |
| MILLREEF | Thoroughbred who won 12 of 14 races and finished second twice, 1970-1972 |
| BARYSHNIKOV | Mikhail ---, Soviet-born ballet dancer who defected to the West while on tour with the Kirov Ballet in 1974 (11) |
| RUDOLF | Russian ballet dancer and choreographer who defected to the West in 1961 |
| ALCIBIADES | Athenian statesman and general in the Peloponnesian War who defected to the Spartans in 415, but returned and led the victories at Abydos and Cyzicus |
| ARNOLD | Benedict, U.S. military officer who defected to the British in 1780 in the Revolutionary War (6) |
| KIM | India-born English double agent who defected to the Soviet Union in 1963 (3,6) |
| GUYBURGESS | British diplomat who defected to the USSR in 1951 and died in 1963 (3,7) |
| LISACAMERON | SNP MP who defected to the Scottish Conservatives earlier this month (4,7) |
| BURGESS | Guy, double agent who defected to the Soviet Union in 1951 (7) |
| MIKHAIL | He defected to the West on June 29, 1974 |
| MIKHAILBARYSHNIKOV | Russian ballet dancer who defected to Canada in 1974 |
| LEEANDERSON | Ex-Conservative deputy chairman who defected to Reform UK in 2024 |
| ANDY | Cuban baseball phenom Morales, who has defected to the U.S. |
| RUDOLFNUREYEV | Soviet ballet dancer (1938-1993) who defected and joined the Royal Ballet: 2 wds. |
| VLADIMIR | Soviet Embassy official who defected in 1954, ... Petrov |
| BALLET | Rudolf Nureyev, who defected from Russia in 1961, was most famous for his work in this form of enter |
| PHILBY | Kim, British intelligence agent who spied for the Soviet Union and defected in 1963 (6) |
| APOSTATE | Rubbish penned by a model who has defected (8) |
