World power until '91

The answer

USSR

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

Used 11 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2000. 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 participant - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
• Cold War power - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
• 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.

• Remove from power - OUST, used 88 times
• Power unit - WATT, used 77 times
• Until - UPTO, used 70 times
• "Brave New World" drug - SOMA, used 60 times
• Staying power - LEGS, used 56 times
• Presidential power - VETO, used 53 times

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