Complete Clue List
Across
1. A 1955 British thriller film starring Richard Conte as Bill Locklin (6,3,6)
9. A province in the Campania region of Italy, and location of the Arch of Trajan (9)
10. Justina Machado portrayed Mily Zamora in this 2008 American film (5)
11. A vast treeless plain in the arctic regions (6)
12. A structure from which an artificially produced jet of water arises (8)
13. Released in 2003, a solo album by English singer Melanie C (6)
15. A nickname for the city of New York (3,5)
18. Wat Arun is a Buddhist temple located in this country in Southeast Asia (8)
19. An aimless drawing made while a person's attention is otherwise occupied (6)
21. The 1991 American gangster film "Billy Bathgate", featured Barry ___ as Father McInerny (8)
23. Mary ___ was cast as Frannie Scheindlin, in the 2009 comedy "Between Two Ferns: The Movie" (6)
26. An acronym for light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation (5)
27. The northernmost city in New Zealand, and birth place of sailor Laura Dekker (9)
28. Irish Thoroughbred racehorse, winner of the Prix du Moulin de Longchamp in 2002 (4,2,9)
Down
1. Colin Farrell and Rachel Weisz both featured in the 2015 comedy film "The ___" (7)
2. A projection on the end of a piece of wood that forms a joint with a mortise (5)
3. City in North West England, location of the Cavern Club made famous by the Beatles (9)
4. The sound that a bell produces (4)
5. Serbian male tennis player, US Open Champion in 2011, 2015 and 2018, Novak ___ (8)
6. William ___, Irish portrait painter and writer of "An Onlooker in France, 1917-1919" (5)
7. An adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, published in 1886 (9)
8. African capital city in which Our Lady of Victories Cathedral is located (7)
14. A medication that reduces or eliminates pain (9)
16. The highest mountain in the western hemisphere, located in the Andes (9)
17. Stanford University professor who was a co-founder of Google Brain with J.Dean and G.Corrado (6,2)
18. The lead character in the crime novel and film series "The Saint", Simon ___ (7)
20. Happening before the present time (7)
22. Spica is the brightest star in this constellation (5)
24. A wading bird with white plumage, similar to a heron (5)
25. A unit of rhythm in poetry, composed of a short syllable followed by a long one (4)