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Having terrible trouble with parsing today.

Can somebody please explain why:
Someone's who's resigned to interrupting this way - STOIC

Kent aristocrat left 3,3 S?T ??? or (?R?) (set off?) if answer to

Autocrat rapidly limited what came after the USSR is Russian

Ulster University opens stuff, finding skull - CRANIUM

Many thanks

If I space the letters you should get the meanings

S TO IC
SE TOFF
CRA NIU M

a stoic someone who is resigned/indifferent to pleasure or pain
this way = sic + to

The other one fascist = autocrat

fast + cis (Commonwealth of Independent States)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_of_Independent_States

Very many thanks