The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word MOLOTOV
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result MOLOTOV
- Soviet minister gets second great deal over extracting erbium
- Bravo to Lombardy serving a retro cocktail
- Cocktail namer who gave us the Flaming Ferrari?
- Soviet statesman writes low verse about destiny
- Well-known Russian cocktail?
- This cocktail would warm you up
- Russian statesman in old group in initiative that ignores English
- Russian’s short gambit accepted — nothing much
- Discussed spy, a cavalier diplomat of yore
- Type of cocktail losing crushed ice in shaky locomotive
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