Complete Clue List
Across
1. Award winning 1987 thriller, starring Michael Douglas and Glenn Close (5,10)
9. Track 2 on the 1989 album "Sacred Heart" from Shakespear's Sister (3,6)
10. The 1952 American western film "Wagons West" was directed by Ford ___ (5)
11. French novelist Jean-Louis Curtis was born here in 1917 (6)
12. The first novel by David Gibbins in his "Jack Howard" series, published in 2005 (8)
13. Surname of the American writer whose novel "Little Women" was first published in 1868 (6)
15. A person born in or living in Casablanca or Marrakesh (8)
18. Pelham Bay Park can be visited in this New York City borough (3,5)
19. ___ Boschi was cast as Giovanna Ferra in the 1987 film "The Sicilian" (6)
21. The largest of the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean (8)
23. Attack by surprise from a place of hiding (6)
26. "Bad ___" a 2011 film starring Chris Fornataro and Bill Brock (2,3)
27. The Round House in ___ is the oldest building still standing in Western Australia (9)
28. A lucrative payment given to a person who retires early (6,9)
Down
1. A former name of the island of Taiwan (7)
2. A principle or belief, especially one of religion or philosophy (5)
3. Writer Sue Townsend who created the character Adrian Mole, was born here in 1946 (9)
4. Novel by Joyce Carol Oates, which won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction in 1970 (4)
5. Studio album from punk band 'Cute Is What We Aim For' - released in 2008 (8)
6. A 2010 novel written by Frederick Forsyth, "The ___" (5)
7. Exactly alike in every detail (9)
8. Brigitte ___ starred in the title role of the 1985 film "Red Sonja" (7)
14. City in Ukraine, the site of a nuclear power station accident in 1986 (9)
16. Term used for two separate conflicts between China and Britain in the 19th century (5,4)
17. Twenty percent expressed as a common fraction (3,5)
18. The process of making handmade lace by means of a hand shuttle (7)
20. A person who is proficient in sports (7)
22. "Barnaby ___" was a historical novel by Charles Dickens first published in 1841 (5)
24. Studio album by the English band Depeche Mode, released in 1997 (5)
25. Laura ___ starred as Lula Pace Fortune in the 1990 film "Wild at Heart" (4)