| SABIN | Whose (Albert ___) oral polio vaccine was given to millions of Russians before being released in the US? (5) |
| SERFS | Millions of Russians, until the Emancipation Reform of 1861 |
| HAMMER | Ball on a wire whirled around the head before being released in an Olympic or Highland event (6) |
| NEEDFORSPEED | Series of racing video games published by Electronic Arts, the first in the series being released in 1994 |
| SMALLPOX | Infectious disease now considered eradicated; its first vaccine was discovered by Edward Jenner in 1796 (5,3) |
| PITT | The Salk vaccine was developed at its med |
| HANOI | Island in The Atlantic close to Savannah going all the way back is home to millions of Asians (5) |
| SAOPAULO | Home to millions of Brazilians |
| SEA | Home to millions of creatures |
| ANTCOLONY | Home to millions of workers, perhaps |
| UTAH | State that's home to millions of Mormons |
| AMERRYWAR | Title given to the 1997 British film Keep the Aspidistra Flying when it was released in the United States (1,5,3) |
| LICENSEDTOKILL | 1965 film starring Tom Adams as secret agent Charles Vine, released in the US under the title The Second Best Secret Agent in the Whole Wide World |
| USSR | "Back in the ___" (song released in the sixth year after the Cuban Missile Crisis) |
| AQUIETPLACE | 2018 film starring Emily Blunt (B) and Millicent Simmonds whose sequel was released in the UK in June (1,5,5) |
| HEART | Band whose debut album "Dreamboat Annie" was released in the U.S. on Valentine's Day in 1976 |
| TSAR | Originally the supreme autocrat, first of Russians (4) |
| ARUTIUNIAN | Armenian composer with a couple of Russians in a unit, possibly (10) |
| ONUS | The burden of Russians (4) |
| ENTRY | Guard barring the latest of Russians seeking access? |