Complete Clue List
Across
1. A word or phrase that reads the same whether read forwards or backwards (10)
6. Philip ___ was cast as Colonel Reade in the 1953 comedy "The Girls of Pleasure Island" (4)
9. A unit of area equal to 640 acres (6,4)
10. A studio album released in 2016 by the Irish band Bell X1 (4)
12. Released in September 1968, this was the fifth album from the Bee Gees (4)
13. He starred as Phineas Mitchell in the 1952 film "Park Row" (4,5)
15. The historic Wawona Hotel is located in America's ___ National Park (8)
16. The goddess of the dawn, in Roman mythology (6)
18. A person retired from society, usually for religious reasons (6)
20. H2SO4 is the chemical formula of ___ acid (8)
23. Marvin Gaye Heard It Through the ___ in 1968 (9)
24. Frank Oz was the voice of this fictional character in the Star Wars series (4)
26. In chess, a piece that is also known as the castle (4)
27. Lead vocalist of the rock band Junkyard, when formed in 1987 (5,5)
28. In the Old Testament, the eldest of Noah's three sons (4)
29. A 1995 studio album from Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler (4,6)
Down
1. The second studio album from Björk, released in June 1995 (4)
2. Birth name of actress Mia Farrow : María de ___ Villiers Farrow (7)
3. In 1979/80 "The Executioner's Song" was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for this novelist (6,6)
4. The English social reformer Elizabeth Fry died in this coastal town in 1845 (8)
5. Italian name of the capital of Lombardy (6)
7. Italian city, birthplace of the composer Gaetano Donizetti in 1797 (7)
8. A novel by American writer Anita Shreve, published in 1995 (10)
11. A carnivorous plant, native to the East coast of the United States (5,7)
14. Greek philosopher, best known for his theorem of the right-angled triangle (10)
17. "The Fundamentals" is a studio album released in 2014 by this American rapper (8)
19. The Taubman Museum of Art is located in this city in the state of Virginia (7)
21. A silent film released in 1928 starring Clara Bow as Bubbles McCoy (3,4)
22. The 1979 US TV movie "Crisis in ___" starred George Peppard as Nick Culver (3-3)
25. An informal, and usually friendly conversation (4)