John, in Moscow

The answer

IVAN

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the IVAN answer page.

Used 8 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2012; first recorded in 1982. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

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• Notorious czar - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
• He was terrible - used 20 times, most recently in 2020
• Infamous tsar - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
• Netman Lendl - used 20 times, most recently in 2015
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• Author Turgenev - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
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• Russian John - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
• Terrible one - used 14 times, most recently in 2010
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• One of the Brothers Karamazov. - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
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• Pavlov - used 9 times, most recently in 1995
• Russian czar - used 9 times, most recently in 1984
• Russian name - used 9 times, most recently in 1975
• "Terrible" Russian - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Catcher Rodriguez - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
• First czar - used 8 times, most recently in 2006
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• Muscovite - used 8 times, most recently in 1985
• Turgenev. - used 8 times, most recently in 1973
• Wall Street's Boesky - used 8 times, most recently in 2010
• First czar of Russia - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
• "Terrible" Russian leader - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
• "Fathers and Sons" novelist Turgenev - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
• Film director Reitman - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
• "Kindergarten Cop" director Reitman - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• One of the Karamazovs - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
• Psychologist Pavlov - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
• Writer Turgenev - used 6 times, most recently in 2021

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• Naturalist John - MUIR, used 56 times
• New Age musician John - TESH, used 46 times
• City south of Moscow - OREL, used 43 times
• New Age pianist John - TESH, used 35 times
• Sierra Club founder John - MUIR, used 30 times
• Book after John - ACTS, used 26 times

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