- PUTIN
- Spend, as time
- Ante
- Totalitarian-ish Russian president Vladimir
- Yeltsin's successor
- World leader who is a judo master
- World leader who's an expert at judo
- #1 on Forbes' list of the World's Most Powerful People for the last three years
- Red head?
- Ask, as for a raise
- Medvedev cohort
- Yeltsin successor
- Enter
- Plant, as a crop
- Russian president
- Top Muscovite
- Apply (for)
- Enter a harbor
- Entered the harbor
- Contribute
- Medvedev's predecessor
- Prime Minister of Russia
- World leader named Time's Person of the Year in 2007
- Add
- I'll ___ a good word for you
- Russian president Vladimir
- Offer, as one's two cents
- Add to the mix
- Applied (for)
- President before and after Medvedev
- Russian leader
- Email him at eng.kremlin.ru
- Leningrad-born leader
- Contribute to a kitty
- Apply (for), as a promotion
- Antonym of "withdraw"
- World leader with a judo DVD
- Contribute to a cash collection
- Contribute to a poker pot
- World leader since 2000
- Bush's opposite number
- Make a request (for)
- ___ Bay, scene of Perry's victory, 1813.
- Bay on Lake Erie island; Perry's victory, 1813.
- Enter a port or harbor, as for shelter, repairs, etc.
- Interpose.
- Enter a port.
- Lake Erie bay, scene of Perry's victory.
- Lake Erie bay.
- Deposit
- Enter port
- Opposite of remove
- Leader born in 17-Across
- Yeltsin's successor as leader of Russia
- Vladimir of the Kremlin
- Ante, say
- Vladimir of Russia
- Foreign president with a black belt in judo
- Leader who was Time's 2007 Person of the Year
- World leader who's a judo master
- Leader typically appearing shirtless in "S.N.L." parodies
- Man of the hour in Russia
- World leader who holds both a law degree and a Ph.D. in economics
- He has agreed to pardon 11-Down
- He now runs the Kremlin
- He was criticized for remaining on vacation during the Kursk crisis
- He's the first leader of his nation to visit North Korea
- Russia's second president
- 21st-century Russian leader
- Leader who spent 15 years in the KGB
- Leader formerly in the KGB
- Vladimir at the Helsinki summit
- World leader who was a KGB agent
- World leader with a black belt
- President since 2000
- Leader who spent 15 years with the KGB
- Time's 2007 Person of the Year
