Complete Clue List
Across
1. The thread-like structure of DNA that carries genes (10)
6. The world's largest continent (4)
10. ___ Farage, leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) (5)
11. Mint sauce often complements this Sunday lunch (5,4)
12. City buried by an eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD (7)
13. Name of a chimpanzee owned by Elvis Presley (7)
14. Improvements in value or quality (12)
18. Neurologist who developed the theory of the Oedipus complex (7,5)
21. '___ Too Far' 1974 book outlining a failed Allied attempt to breech German lines at Arnhem (1,6)
23. 2006 horror film starring Annie Sorell and Jeffrey Combs (7)
24. Nickname accorded the 1992 US Olympic basketball squad (5,4)
25. ___ Cara, took the role of Coco Hernandez in the 1980 film 'Fame' (5)
26. Daughter of the earth goddess Gaia and the sky god Uranus (4)
27. A song by punk rock band Bikini Kill on their album 'Reject All American' (5,5)
Down
1. A cracker spread with relish and served as an appetizer (6)
2. An authoritarian government (6)
3. Original name of the building at Greenwich in London now renamed '02' (10,4)
4. Surname of star of 'Funny Girl' and 'A Star is Born' (9)
5. A method for doing or achieving something (5)
7. Those practicing great self-denial, name derives from ancient Greek city (8)
8. A tree surgeon (8)
9. Toubkal is the highest peak in this African range (5,9)
15. A Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Christ (9)
16. An inhabitant of Jersey or St.Helena (8)
17. To afflict with pain or anxiety (8)
19. ___ Merkel, Germany's first female Chancellor (6)
20. A distinguishing regional manner of pronunciation (6)
22. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid (5)