Across
- 3. Famous Swede's greatest invention, after the eponymous Prize
- 5. Nationalist PM of Iran, deposed by US and UK in 1953
- 6. Final leader of the Branch Davidians
- 11. Country with largest Muslim population
- 12. Famous lighter of the "powder keg of Europe"
- 14. Late Russian mercenary commander and "Putin's chef"
- 15. Only lawful empress regnant in Chinese history
- 17. Longest-reigning (verifiable) sovereign monarch
- 18. Formerly Swaziland
- 19. Soviet security agency
Down
- 1. 2000 presidential election candidate and climate activist
- 2. First to orbit Earth
- 4. Only country whose PM went swimming one day and never returned
- 7. Most famous auxiliary constructed language
- 8. Who shot Jack in 1963?
- 9. Following his nation’s 2022 leadership crisis, he was the third PM they had within two months
- 10. Infamous Russian mystic and faith healer
- 13. International agency for cultural and scientific exchange
- 16. Last European language isolate