Cold War participant
The crossword clue "Cold War participant" is answered by USSR, a 4-letter entry. Used 12 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
USSR
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the USSR answer page.
Used 12 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for USSR
Every other clue in this collection answered by USSR, most used first.
- Cold War initials - used 128 times, most recently in 2026
- "Back in the ___" - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
- Red letters? - used 35 times, most recently in 2025
- Cold War inits. - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
- U.N. member - used 29 times, most recently in 1991
- "Back in the ___" (Beatles song) - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
- Former UN member - used 28 times, most recently in 2023
- Cold War letters - used 23 times, most recently in 2022
- The Beatles' "Back in the ___" - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
- Cold War country - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- KGB country - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
- Mir launcher - used 13 times, most recently in 2017
- WWII ally - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
- CIS precursor - used 12 times, most recently in 2006
- Cold War power - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
- World power until '91 - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- Cold War abbr. - used 9 times, most recently in 2015
- Cold War adversary - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
- Cold War superpower - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- SALT participant - used 9 times, most recently in 2012
- Cold War side - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- SALT party - used 8 times, most recently in 2016
- Soyuz launcher - used 8 times, most recently in 2008
- Superpower until 1991 - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
- World power until 1991 - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- 1980 Olympics host - used 7 times, most recently in 2012
- "Back in the ___": Beatles - used 7 times, most recently in 2011
- "Miracle on Ice" losing team - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
- Old map abbr. - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
- Old map letters - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Pre-1991 atlas abbr. - used 7 times, most recently in 2012
- SALT signatory - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
- SALT signer - used 7 times, most recently in 2008
- 1984 Olympics no-show - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
- "Back in the ___" (Beatles hit) - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
- CIS predecessor - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
- Former Security Council member - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Former world power - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Lenin's land, for short - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
- Sputnik launcher - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- UN member until 1991 - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
- WWII power - used 6 times, most recently in 2012
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.
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- War god - ARES, used 261 times
- God of war - ARES, used 210 times
- Greek war god - ARES, used 183 times
- Trojan War hero - AJAX, used 154 times
- Gulf War missile - SCUD, used 130 times
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