Complete Clue List
Across
8. Suzi, pint-sized US rocker (is almost a high performance Audi)
9. Queen Consort to King William IV. South Australian capital named after her
10. Mr Holmes, consulting detective (is elementary)
11. Title of the chief magistrate of Venice or Genoa
12. Anne and Mary, sisters, both connected to Henry VIII (until one became disconnected, so to speak)
13. Jack Torrance's hotel in "The Shining" (Omit "The")
14. Thomas witnessed Lady Godiva's nude horse ride through Coventry and became ____ Tom
16. Mr Taylor, 12th US President
20. Mike, 29th US ambassador to Israel, diplomat, Republican Presidential candidate 2008, 2016
23. Sam Houston, Stephen F. Austin and Lyndon B. Johnson for example
25. Flintstone patriarch
26. Small rooms attached to churches where clergy don appropriate robes and clothing
27. Order of monks or New World Monkeys (Both like coffee apparently)
28. Broad thoroughfare usually lined with trees (Eddy Grant liked his to be electric)
Down
1. Gutzon Borglum's mountainous project (8). (It was so big he had to 'move quickly' (4,4))
2. Laurence, Anglo-Irish author , "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy" (was rather serious)
3. Citizens of an Italian city (alt.) - like Guglielmo Marconi & Pope Benedict XIV (think spaghetti)
4. Pollock, painter, had a few "Blue Poles", or Brown, musician, was "Running on Empty"
5. Mr Herman, alter ego of American actor Paul Reubens (3-3)
6. Mr Scott, US actor (1897-1987), famous for Westerns 1928-1962
7. A slow musical tempo
15. Taunted or mocked (but not too seriously) (5,3)
17. Water flowing under pressure naturally from underground to the surface
18. The person who came second (6-2)
19. Hugo, Australian actor born in Nigeria, Agent Smith in "The Matrix"
21. Violent and noisy disturbance, a commotion
22. Germanic girl's name (and, if big enough, a howitzer)
24. Persian ruler reigned from 486 BC until assassinated 465 BC. Possibly Great, certainly the First