Answer: USSR
USSR is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 462 times.
Referring Clues:
- Once-mighty initials
- 1980 Olympics host
- 90-Down's land
- Soyuz launcher
- Pre-1991 atlas abbr.
- One of the Allies of W.W. II
- Former G.D.R. ally
- Red letters?
- Stalin's domain
- It broke up in Dec. 1991
- Atlas abbr. before 1991
- Former world power, for short
- The Beatles' "Back in the ___"
- Cold war inits.
- Brezhnev's land
- Subj. of a 1991 breakup
- Russia was part of it: Abbr.
- Cold war initials
- Warsaw Pact land
- Boycotter of the '84 L.A. Olympics
- Khrushchev's concern
- SALT signatory
- Cold war foe
- Former "evil empire"
- Former empire
- "Back in the ___"
- Moscow's land, once: Abbr.
- Country founded in 1922: Abbr.
- Where Kalinin was pres.
- W.W. II ally
- Locale in a Beatles song
- Five-Year Plan nation
- SALT party
- Gorbachev was its last leader: Abbr.
- 15-Down rival, once
- Lenin's land, for short
- "Red" letters
- U.N. member through 1991
- Superpower initials until 1991
- Former empire inits.
- Brezhnev's land, in brief
- SALT I signer
- U.S. ally in W.W. II
- Cold war superpower
- Yalta conf. locale
- Five-Year Plan implementer, for short
- "Evil empire" of the '80s
- Stalingrad's land, for short
- Reagan's "evil empire"
- Cold war power: Abbr.
- Cold war foe, for short
- Mir launcher
- See 4-Down
- 56-Across's cold war foe
- UN member until 1991
- Cold War rival of the USA
- "Back in the ___" (Beatles song)
- Pre-1991 world power
- World power until '91
- Pre-1991 superpower
- Nation in Dec. 1991 news
- Superpower until 1991
- "Back in the ___" (Beatles tune)
- It became the CIS
- Ray Stevens' "Surfin' ___"
- Gorbachev's country (abbr.)
- Country in a 1969 Beatles song title
- Letters on an old map of Asia
- Khrushchev's land (abbr.)
- Old map letters
- Nation that dissolved in 1991
- Reagan's "Evil Empire" (abbr.)
- Gorbachev's nation
- Bloc that dissolved in 1991
- USA rival in the Cold War
- SALT signer
- The KGB's country
- Five-Year Plan empire
- Cold War bloc
- It broke up in Dec. of '91
- Former Red giant
- The Olympics' 1980 host and 1984 boycotter
- 1984 Summer Games boycotter
- Country in a Beatle song
- Country featured in a Beatles song
- "Back in the ___" (Beatles hit)
- Moscow was its cap.
- Cosigner of the ABM Treaty
- One-time Red giant
- Russia was part of it (abbr.)
- Old UN member
- Its parts included an Arm. and a Lat.
- Warsaw Pact country
- Empire until 1991: Abbr.
- CCCP, in English
- Former part of 11-Down: Abbr.
- Cold War empire: Abbr.
- Cold War power
- Former Olympics powerhouse
- 1984 Summer Olympics boycotter
- Sputnik launcher
- Former U.N. power
- Space race participant
- KGB funder
- Old atlas abbr.
- Focus of a big breakup in '91
- "Miracle on Ice" losing team
- Cold War letters
- Old atlas initials
- CIS predecessor
- KGB country
- Amer. WWII ally
- 20th-cen. superpower
- Warsaw Treaty Org. member
- WWII U.S. ally
- U.S. ally in WWII
- Outdated globe letters
- SALT talks participant
- Cold War rival: Abbr.
- 1980 Summer Olympics host
- Old polit. letters
- Cold War adversary
- Khrushchev's country: Abbr.
- Former Security Council member
- Cold War principal
- 20th-c. nation
- WWII ally
- Ex-UN member
- Former UN member
- Erstwhile power
- SALT superpower
- Lenin's land
- Moscow's former country: Abbr.
- Warsaw Pact nation
- Onetime UN power
- Pre-1992 map abbr.
- George Kennan specialty
- Russia was part of it
- Superpower that dissolved in the 1990s
- CIS forerunner
- Cold War participant
- Warsaw Pact country (Abbr.)
- "Miracle on Ice" opponent
- Former GDR ally
- Warsaw Pact member (Abbr.)
- Former communist country, briefly
- ''Back in the ___''
- '84 Olympics boycotter
- Former world power, briefly
- SALT participant
- One-time superpower
- Former Olympic team
- WWII power
- Gorby's former domain
- Russia, once
- Former world power
- Cold war side
- 1984 Olympics no-show
- 1980 Winter Olympics host
- Letters on an old map
- Notable break-up of 1991
- Soyuz 1 launcher
- Where "the Ukraine girls really knock me out"
- START I treaty party
- Russia, before 1991
- KGB locale
- Extinct red giant
- Red giant now in pieces?
- Cold War country
- It died in 1991
- Khrushchev's home
- Country founded in 1922
- Country dissolved Dec. 8, 1991
- Letters on an old Asian map
- See 1-Across
- Bygone atlas listing
- Red giant now broken up
- KGB whereabouts
- HUAC concern
- Former UN Security Council member
- Russia, of yesterday
- Gorby's domain
- Atlas abbr. until 1991
- J.F.K. adversary
- Nikita's realm, once
- It disappeared on Dec. 26, 1991
- State in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991
- Cold War foe, briefly
- KGB creator
- Cold-war adversary
- Red letters
- Locale in a 1968 Beatles song
- US%C2%92 cold-war adversary
- Khrushchev's country
- Pres. Reagan's "evil empire"
- Former Eurasian superpower
- Cold War adversary: Abbr.
- Gp. dissolved 12/26/1991
- Former communist state
- Country in a Beatles song
- Ex-superpower letters
- Former communist country
- Political org. until 1991
- Sputnik launcher (Abbr.)
- BOAC destination, in song
- Erstwhile empire, in brief
- Country that disappeared in '91
- USÂ’ cold-war adversary
- U.N. member until 1991
- Country in a Beatles title
- Beatles' "Back in the ---"
- Pre-1991 power
- Brezhnev's initials?
- "The Kremlin Letter" state
- Whence Drago from "Rocky IV"
- Zangief's country in "Street Fighter II"
- World power until 1991
- Country with a hammer-and-sickle flag, for short
- Fed. dissolved by the Belavezha Accords
- Fallen Russian govt.
- Old Eurasian letters
- Amer. ally in W.W. II
- "Back in the ___" (Beatles)
- Red giant, once?
- 1984 Olympics boycotter
- "Evil empire" initials
- Treaty signer with Ger. in 1939
- Old NATO worry
- Gorby's realm
- Old NATO worry
- 1-Down's land
- Notable breakup of 1991
- Abbr. in old atlases
- Glasnost initials
- Glasnost initials
- Glasnot initials
- Cold War country (Abbr.)
- Cold War abbr.
- Old map abbr.
- KGB's home
- Cold War-era map abbr.
- Abbr. on old maps
- Cold War nation (Abbr.)
- Cold War faction (Abbr.)
- Abbr. on old Eurasian maps
- Abbr. on old Asian maps
- Cold War-era abbr.
- CIS preceder
- 'Back in the ___'
- See 23-Across
- Cold War nation
- Cold War era letters
- Khrushchev's home (Abbr.)
- Gorbachev's fed.
- KGB's land
- Pre-'91 superpower
- Moscow's fed., once
- KGB's place
- Brezhnev's fed.
- Stalin's empire
- Brezhnev's empire
- Former Russian nation: Abbr.
- One-time Red giant (abbr.)
- Red state, once
- Pre-'91 world power
- Old NATO target
- Locale in a Beatles title
- Old map initials
- Gorbachev's empire
- Cold War country: Abbr.
- Boycotter in 1984 headlines
- 1984 summer Olympics no-show
- Reagan's "evil empire," for short
- Red power, initially
- Red state, formerly
- Georgia was a part of it: Abbr.
- It broke up in 1991: Abbr.
- One of the WWII Allies
- Letters on old Asian maps
- 1979 Afghanistan invader: Abbr.
- Country founded in 1922 (abbr.)
- Beatles' 'Back in the ___'
- It dissolved in Dec. 1991
- Sov. Union
- It ceased to be in Dec. 1991
- Bygone U.N. member
- Letters for an ex-superpower
- Whence the villains in the original "Red Dawn"
- "Master and Margarita" locale
- Software purchaser
- Cold war initals
- It dissolved in December 1991
- Ally of E. Germany
- Letters on the Allied side in WWII
- Bloc established officially in Moscow in 1922
- Apt anagram of "Russ."
- State for which "Animal Farm" is an allegory
- Red giant that's broken apart
- Cold War opponent: Abbr.
- Gorbachev led it last
- Space-race participant
- Stalin's land
- Letters on Gagarin's helmet
- Bygone atlas initals
- KGB's country
- Cold way letters
- Cold War power, briefly
- Stalin's land, in brief
- Gorbachev's land: Abbr.
- Khrushchev's country (abbr.)
- Defunct acronym
- BOAC destination in a Beatles hit
- Biggest breakup of 1991
- Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty signatory, briefly
- It broke up in 1991
- Nation once led by Gorbachev, abbr.
- World power until 1991: Abbr.
- Miracle on Ice loser of '80
- Lith. and Ukr. were part of it
- Euro has-been
- Red giant that disintegrated?
- Group of red states, for short?
- KGB's milieu
- Initialism in a Beatles title
- Empire until '91
- Khrushchev's land, for short
- Abbr. in outdated atlases
- Vanished superpower
- Russia between 1917 and 1991 (abbr.)
- Gorbachev's land
- It broke up in 1991 (abbr.)
- "Back in the ___" (Beatles jam)
- Gorbachev's nation, once
- Gorbachev's land, for short
- BOAC flier's destination in a 1968 song
- One 29-Across of the U.S. in W.W. II
- Pre-'91 empire
- Moscow's land, once (Abbr.)
- 1991 breakup newsmaker
- Brezhnev's domain
- Cold War country, briefly
- Moscow's land, once
- Onetime USA foe
- Cold war concern
- 'Back in the '
- "Back in the ___, you don't know how lucky you are, boy"
- Amer. ally in WWII
- Former Soviet inits.
- Where Kazakhstan was, once
- Country in a classic Beatles title
- Map initials until 1991
- " . . . riddle wrapped in a mystery"
- CCCP to us
- SALT I participant
- Space race competitor, for short
- Uzbek, Tajik, etc.
- Atlas initials until 1991
- Superpower no more
- Nation in stunning 1991 news
- America's Cold War foe, for short
- World power inits. until '91
- Fed. of Brezhnev
- Second country to develop the atom bomb
- Former superpower
- Sputnik's birthplace
- Foe in a four-plus-decade "war"
- Stalin's fed.
- Country renamed in 1991
- Sputnik launcher, briefly
- UN member, 1945-1991
- Superpower of old
- "red" initials
- World power initials until 1991
- "Miracle on Ice" loser
- It dissolved on 12/31/91
- 70-Down launcher
- TASS country
- Russia, pre-1991
- Eastern Bloc letters until 1991
- Dissolver of Dec. 1991
- Big part of old maps
- World power until 1991 (Abbr.)
- American ally in W.W. II
- 1922-91 initials
- Former abbr. for Russia
- World power until 1991, briefly
- Map initials no more
- Land in a Beatles song
- Collapsed red giant?
- Former map letters
- Dissolved bloc (abbr.)
- Space Race contender
- Estonia's former bloc, briefly
- Largest country until late '91
- "Rocky IV" setting
- Space Race competitor
- Superpower until '91
- "The Evil Empire" (Abbr.)
- State led by Lenin, in brief
- Allegiance of "The Americans" on TV, ironically
- Space Race inits.
- MiG developer
- CCCP, to the West
- Defunct Asian country, briefly
- Space Race rival of the U.S.
- 44-Across' land: Abbr.
- It dissolved in '91
- Georgia was once a part of it
- Founding member of the U.N. Security Council, for short
- Red states, once
- Mir launcher: Abbr.
- Geographical inits. until 1991
- Red state, once, for short
- Confederation that included Latvia, for short
- KGB organizer
- Cold War-era letters
- KGB state, once
- World power from 1922-1991
- "A Gentleman in Moscow" setting, briefly
- Home of the KGB
- Global power that broke up in '91
- Cold War enemy
- Space race initials
- Name in a noted '90s breakup
- Founding member of the U.N. Security Council
- It raised a major red flag
- Space Race country
- Leningrad's land, for short
- Red states, once, in brief
- Losing team in the "Miracle on Ice" hockey game
- Federation formed in 1922, for short
- Brezhnev's country
- U.S.'s Space Race competitor
- Spy-fi country
- World's largest country from 1922 to 1991
- Old map inits.
- Map inits. until 1991
- Cold War power, in brief
- World power in many spy-fi novels
- Old org. for Armenia
- One side on "The Americans," initially
- One-sixth of the world's ground surface until 1991, in brief
- "Miracle on Ice" losing team: Abbr.
- Former governor of Georgia?
- Grp. that launched 41-Across
- Spy-fi side, often
- It's written as "C.C.C.P." in Cyrillic
- Cold War power, for short
- Country whose cyrillic name was ccccp
- Nat. dissolved in 1991
- Letters on an outdated globe
- Spy-fi side
- Locale of a 1991 coup attempt by the Gang of Eight, in brief
- Home to Leningrad, for short
- USA rival in the space drama "For All Mankind"
- Letters on outdated maps
- It once shared a land border with 16 countries
- Letters in a Beatles classic
- See 36-Across
- Bygone world power, for short
- Former country that included five -stan countries, for short
- Sputnik power, briefly
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- USA Today - July 15, 2025
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- LA Times - May 25, 2025
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- New York Times - March 09, 2025
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- LA Times - December 05, 2024
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- New York Times - August 03, 2024
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