Complete Clue List
Across
1. The 1973 Bob Marley and the Wailers album "Burnin'" included this track on side one (1,4,3,7)
9. A medieval catapult for hurling heavy stones (9)
10. An island consisting of a circular coral reef surrounding a lagoon (5)
11. To slip or pass by, relating to time (5)
12. A 1955 biblical epic film starring Lana Turner and Edmund Purdom, "The ___" (8)
13. A deceitful and unreliable scoundrel (6)
15. The legislative capital of South Africa (4,4)
18. A market town in Buckinghamshire, England. Lyricist Tim Rice was born here in 1944 (8)
19. A BBC television sitcom 1980-88, starring Ruth Madoc as Gladys Pugh (2-2-2!)
20. The largest town on the Isle of Anglesey, Wales (8)
22. Lower oneself from a mountainside, with a rope coiled around the body (6)
25. Released in 2009, the second album by The Boxer Rebellion (5)
26. A hormone occurring naturally in the brain and having analgesic properties (9)
27. American actor who was cast as Finch, in the 1999 coming-of-age comedy film "American Pie" (5,4,6)
Down
1. A book by Carmen Maria Machado published in 2019, awarded the 2021 Folio Prize (2,3,5,5)
2. A dog-like mammal of Africa that feeds mainly in groups as scavengers (5)
3. A young adult novel published in 2000 by Australian author Sonya Hartnett, "___ Child" (9)
4. A recessed landscape design, also known as a ditch and fence (2-2)
5. The ninth novel by Ian McEwan, published in 2005 (8)
6. A large African antelope with spirally twisted horns (5)
7. "The ___", a 1954 adventure film starring Robert Stack as Charles Wogan (4,5)
8. Stanley is the capital city of this British crown colony in the South Atlantic ocean (8,7)
14. To render motionless, as with a fixed stare (9)
16. Princes Street is the main shopping area in the city centre of this UK city (9)
17. A city in California, known for its Rose Bowl and annual Tournament of Roses parade (8)
21. A jointed device on which a gate swings or moves (5)
23. Birth place of Frederick James Furnivall, a co-creator of the New English Dictionary (5)
24. English actor and comedian, and member of the comedy group Monty Python, Eric ___ (4)