| SMIRNOFF | Vodka brand founded in Moscow in 1864 (8) |
| BOLSHOI | Russian ballet company founded in Moscow in 1776 (7) |
| RASPUTIN | Mystic Russian monk murdered in Moscow in 1916 (8) |
| GRIFFINS | Biscuit and snack food manufacturer founded in Nelson in 1864, currently owned by a German company (8) |
| RANDOLPH | The ____, luxury hotel in Oxford that was built in 1864 by William Wilkinson (8) |
| HEINEKEN | Dutch brewing company founded in 1864 |
| APOLOGIA | Latin term for a formal defence of one's position, such as that of John Henry Newman in 1864 (8) |
| REDCROSS | Humanitarian aid organisation founded in 1864 which helps victims of war or natural disaster (3,5) |
| CASEMENT | Roger, Irish diplomat born in 1864 who was an Easter Rising leader (8) |
| COMINTERN | International Communist organization founded by Lenin in Moscow in 1919 (9) |
| COLDFRONT | What Napoleon encountered in Moscow in 1812 was forecasted? (4,5) |
| POLITKOVSKAYA | Anna ___, Russian journalist murdered in Moscow in 2006 (13) |
| KENT | Rockwell, recipient of the Lenin Peace Prize in Moscow in 1967 (4) |
| KANDINSKY | Wassily -, artist born in Moscow in 1866, a pioneer of abstraction (9) |
| WIND | Breeze found in Moscow in downtown region (4) |
| LANCOME | Cosmetics brand founded in Paris in 1935 |
| SAPPORO | Beer brand founded in, and named for, the largest city in Hokkaido |
| ESPRIT | Global fashion brand founded in San Francisco in 1968 |
| UNCLEVANYA | Play by Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov premiered in Moscow in 1899 (5,5) |
| BARBOUR | British luxury clothing brand founded in South Shields in 1894 as an importer of oil cloth (7) |
