Complete Clue List
Across
1. Cold South American desert
5. Self-propelled two-wheeled vehicle
9. Transfers goods to another person without charge
10. Large snakes native to South America
11. A sheet of canvas or similar stretched across a frame to afford weather protection
12. African-American celebration, late December
14. Soft, wet material, that's softer and wetter than it was before (particularly when walked through)
15. Port platform used for loading and unloading ships
17. Infamous canal
18. Really tall building
22. Enclosed railway freight wagons (OR double six)
24. Norwegian narrow sea inlets
26. Starch from a North American plant used as a thickening agent (or in an iconic Aussie biscuit)
27. Pictorial representation
28. Honeycomb shape
29. Four-sided spinning top, used as a toy during the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah
Down
1. Kabul residents
2. An unusual and exciting experience, usually with an element of risk and necessary courage
3. A stock of weapons (or a British soccer team)
4. Slightly open
5. Poetry with a meter (regular pattern of stressed/unstressed syllables) but no rhyme scheme (5,5)
6. Performed or written for performance by a large vocal group, often in a church setting
7. Ancient Spanish port city
8. Intense joy or a malicious, addictive illegal drug
13. Slang term for extorts money (6,4)
16. Holding a position of control or advantage (5,4)
17. Religious day of rest and worship (unless it's black - when it becomes a heavy metal rock group)
19. Feel joyful, especially in a religious setting
20. City in New Mexico that gave its name to mysterious site associated with conspiracy theories
21. Insect with pair of abdominal pincers (sounds like it wears a toupee over its listening devices
23. Synonym of photocopy (verb) derived from a brand name of photocopiers
25. A male animal, especially of equines, that is kept for breeding