Complete Clue List
Across
1. Blackbeard's Castle can be found in this capital city (9,6)
9. Former name of the city of Saint Petersburg, (from 1924-91) (9)
10. A factual piece of information (5)
11. The third of the Magi, complementing Melchior and Balthazar (6)
12. A crisp red and sweet apple of New Zealand origin (8)
13. So small as to verge on insignificant (6)
15. City in California founded by E H Richardson in 1915 (8)
18. The ___, the world's oldest Sunday newspaper initially published in 1791 (8)
19. Pilot or fly an aircraft (6)
20. Russian playwright Anton Chekhov was born here in 1860 (8)
22. Norwegian town, the administrative centre of the municipality of Frogn (6)
25. A statement regarded as being self-evident (5)
26. Former England Test match cricketer nicknamed "Beefy" (3,6)
27. Ebon Atoll is a legislative district of this Pacific country (8,7)
Down
1. Flora Poste is the heroine in this Stella Gibbons novel (4,7,4)
2. ___ Bruckner, cast as as Lisa Mills in the 2002 film "Murder by Numbers" (5)
3. Hall of Fame pitcher Bruce Sutter was born in this Pennsylvanian city (9)
4. A small seabird with a forked tail (4)
5. A novel by Baroness Orczy published in 1913 (8)
6. A tiny two-winged flying insect (5)
7. The geographic centre of Europe is reputedly located in this country (9)
8. Canadian football team based at The Brick Field at Commonwealth Stadium (8,7)
14. Cast as Jack Sanders in the 2015 US comedy film "The Outfield" (4,5)
16. The birthplace of John Lennon (9)
17. Studio album from American rock band 'Russian Circles' released in 2013 (8)
21. The larva of an insect such as a dragonfly (5)
23. The 1958 book "Borstal Boy" was written by Brendan ___ (5)
24. A studio album by Rihanna, released in January 2016 (4)