| Rush "Hold Your Fire" opener | 38 |
| Rush "My precious ___ of honor" | 41 |
| Rush "Seven Cities of ___" | 36 |
| Rush "Test for Echo" opener | 37 |
| Rush "___ ... Stage Left" | 35 |
| Rush might use one to kill a snake | 34 |
| Rush that's feeling blue on the outside? | 44 |
| Rush's "Early Warning" location? | 46 |
| Rush's "Signs" are this | 37 |
| Rush-hour subway rider, facetiously | 35 |
| Rush-hour subway rider, metaphorically | 38 |
| Rushdie's "Verses" | 32 |
| Rushdie's "___ Verses" | 36 |
| Rushes and roars like a hurricane | 33 |
| Rushing attack by mounted troops | 32 |
| Rushing yards or turnovers, for short | 37 |
| Ruskin's "Sesame and ___" | 39 |
| Ruskin's "___ and Lilies" | 39 |
| Ruskin's "___ This Last" | 38 |
| Russ Westover's working girl | 32 |
| Russell Cave National Monument setting: Abbr. | 45 |
| Russell Crowe film sponsored by a bag company | 45 |
| Russell in ''The Wiz'' | 38 |
| Russell in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame | 41 |
| Russell of "American Gangster" | 40 |
| Russell of "Black Widow" | 34 |
| Russell of "Gladiator" | 32 |
| Russell of "His Girl Friday" | 38 |
| Russell of "Les Misérables" | 40 |
| Russell of "Running Wilde" | 36 |
| Russell of "The Insider" | 34 |
| Russell Simmons' clothing line ___ Farm | 43 |
| Russell who played TV's Felicity | 36 |
| Russell ___ (chocolate candy brand) | 35 |
| Russell's "Cinderella Man" co-star | 48 |
| Russell's "Cinderella Man" costar | 47 |
| Russell's "Gladiator" director | 44 |
| Russell's "Robin Hood" costar | 43 |
| Russell's "Tombstone" role | 40 |
| Russell's role in "Tombstone" | 43 |
| Russell's Super Bowl XLVIII rival | 37 |
| Russert of ''Meet the Press'' | 45 |
| Russert of "Meet the Press" | 37 |
| Russia and Latvia are two: Abbr. | 32 |
| Russia's "Mother of Cities" | 41 |
| Russia's is the largest in the world | 40 |
| Russia's Itar-___ news agency | 33 |
| Russia's largest resort city | 32 |
| Russia's St. Alexander _____ | 32 |
| Russia's ___ Bay, arm of the White Sea | 42 |
| Russia's ___ Industrial Area | 32 |
| Russia's _____ Autonomous Republic | 38 |
| Russia, China and France are in it | 34 |
| Russian anarchists' foe, once | 33 |
| Russian assault rifles, casually | 32 |
| Russian author of "Children of the Sun" | 49 |
| Russian author of "Dead Souls" | 40 |
| Russian author of "Taras Bulba" | 41 |
| Russian ballerina who defected to the U.S. | 42 |
| Russian ballet company renamed in 1991 | 38 |
| Russian ballet troupe's ex-name | 35 |
| Russian Blue, Havana Brown, etc. | 32 |
| Russian border sea (can we still call it a sea?) | 48 |
| Russian city east of Chelyabinsk | 32 |
| Russian city known as the gateway to the Caucasus | 49 |
| Russian city near the Kazakhstan border | 39 |
| Russian city on the Irtysh River | 32 |
| Russian city or a pitcher's first name | 42 |
| Russian city or pitcher Hershiser | 33 |
| Russian city that's two-thirds of a threat | 46 |
| Russian city to host the 2014 Olympics | 38 |
| Russian city whose name means "eagle" | 47 |
| Russian city, host of the 2014 Winter Olympics | 46 |
| Russian city, site of heavy W.W. II fighting | 44 |
| Russian co-czar alongside Peter I | 33 |
| Russian communications acronym since 1992 | 41 |
| Russian composer (speller's nightmare #4) | 45 |
| Russian composer born in Ukraine | 32 |
| Russian composer of "Prince Igor" | 43 |
| Russian conductor/composer Markevitch | 37 |
| Russian cooperative craft society | 33 |
| Russian count with a dish named after him | 41 |
| Russian czar known as "the Great" | 43 |
| Russian czar who fought Napoleon | 32 |
| Russian dancer at Chippendales? (M) | 35 |
| Russian democracy champion Bonner | 33 |
| Russian dish served with sour cream | 35 |
| Russian emperor after Catherine II | 34 |
| Russian famously played by an Egyptian | 38 |
| Russian figure skater Protopopov | 32 |
| Russian host of the 2014 Olympics | 33 |
| Russian ice dancing medalist Maya ____ | 38 |
| Russian infant emperor, 1740-'41 | 36 |
| Russian instrument with a triangular body | 41 |
| Russian leader's music treatise? | 36 |
| Russian leader, 1682–1725 | 32 |
| Russian literary award established in 1881 | 42 |
| Russian Literature Nobelist Ivan | 32 |
| Russian master of the modern short story | 40 |
| Russian modernizer known as "The Great" | 49 |