The Guardian - Weekend - November 4 2017 Crossword Puzzle Answers

 The Guardian - Weekend crossword No 357 - Nov 4 2017 Crossword Puzzle Answers

Clues	Answers
Acronym for Soviet special labour camps	GULAG
Alexander __, leader of the Russian provisional government from July to November 1917	KERENSKY
Austrian royal house which ruled the Holy Roman Empire 1438-1740	HABSBURG
Battleship which fired on the 9 Palace on 7 November 1917	AURORA
Decree under 3 with the force of law	UKASE
Eponymous hero of a 1958 play by Samuel Beckett	KRAPP
Former system of Russian government prior to 1917	TSARISM
French city at the confluence of the Rhône and Saône	LYON
Indian cricketing all-rounder	KapilDev
John __, author of Ten Days that Shook the World	REED
Largest of the Inner Hebrides	SKYE
Nom de guerre of Joseph Dzhugashvili	STALIN

 

Clues	Answers
Nom de guerre of Lev Bronstein	TROTSKY
Nom de guerre of Vladimir Ulyanov	LENIN
Russian river that discharges into the Caspian Sea	VOLGA
Russian royal family until 1917	ROMANOV
Spanish for nothing	NADA
Susie __, Countdown lexicographer	DENT
The capital of 6	NASSAU
The original cynic?	DIOGENES
The sign of the Ram?	ARIES
The __, archipelago north of Cuba	BAHAMAS
__ Duncan, minister at the Foreign Office	ALAN
__ Palace, seat of government stormed on the night of 7 November 1917	WINTER