Complete Clue List
Across
1. Crime novel from James M. Cain, first published in 1943 in the collection "Three of a Kind" (6,9)
9. The Dragon Bridge is located in this European capital city (9)
10. The English professional football club ___ Villa, is based at Villa Park stadium (5)
11. Former graduates of colleges or universities (6)
12. A spar projecting from the front of a sailing vessel (8)
13. A large fish-eating bird of prey (6)
15. Founding member and former bassist of American heavy metal band Machine Head (4,4)
18. A novel from English writer Toby Litt, published in 2007 (8)
19. The Prince Consort of Queen Victoria of England (6)
21. Alan Mowbray was cast as ___, in the 1933 film "A Study in Scarlet" (8)
23. Island partner of Trinidad, in the SE Caribbean (6)
26. A children's custom during Halloween, "___ or Treat" (5)
27. Director of the 1974 American film "Young Frankenstein" (3,6)
28. Seventeenth-century French dramatist, whose play "Le Cid" was first performed in 1636 (6,9)
Down
1. In the 1958 British drama "Mark of the Phoenix", Roger ___ was cast as Gavron (7)
2. Ayers Rock in Australia's Northern Territory is known by this Aboriginal name (5)
3. Standard monetary unit of Swaziland, divided into 100 cents (9)
4. Asiatic cheetahs are critically endangered, and now found only in this country (4)
5. Track 2 on Rihanna's 7th studio album "Unapologetic", released in November 2012 (8)
6. The 2016 novel "Hystopia" was written by American writer David ___ (5)
7. A studio album by Jamie Cullum, first released in 2014 (9)
8. The longest river in Asia, flowing from Tibet to the East China Sea (7)
14. Popular name accorded Victoria Beckham when a member of pop group (4,5)
16. The headquarters of the Australian Football League (AFL) are located here (9)
17. An outbreak of a disease occurring over a wide geographic area (8)
18. Australian group ___ Hoods released the studio album "Walking Under Stars" in 2014 (7)
20. A 1982 American comedy film, starring Dustin Hoffman and
Jessica Lange (7)
22. The English football club Sunderland AFC was based at ___ Park from 1898 to 1997 (5)
24. A ring-shaped reef or chain of islands, formed of coral (5)
25. English rock band, whose studio album "The Magic Whip" was released in 2015 (4)