| Answer | Crossword Clue |
|---|---|
| WON | Came first in battle of the bands |
| WON | Came in first in a battle of the bands |
| ENTRY | Battle of the bands' way in |
| ROOT | Cheer in a battle of the bands |
| DRUMSET | Group beaten in a battle of the bands? |
| perestroika | (in the former Soviet Union) The policy or practice of restructuring or reforming the economic and political system. First proposed by Leonid Brezhnev in 1979 and actively promoted by Mikhail Gorbachev, perestroika originally referred to increased automation and labor efficiency, but came to entail greater awareness of economic markets and the ending of central planning |
