SALT signatory

The answer

USSR

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

Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 2001. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.

• USA (1 uses in xd)

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 participant - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
• 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 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

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• Salt Lake City's state - UTAH, used 44 times
• SALT subject - ICBM, used 26 times
• Table salt, to a chemist - NACL, used 26 times

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