Complete Clue List
Across
1. With the exception of the Sun, the closest star to Earth (7,8)
9. The horse of Don Quixote, in the novel by Miguel de Cervantes (9)
10. Hebrew prophet who received the Ten Commandments from God on Mount Sinai (5)
11. A person who chooses to live alone, and far away from society (6)
12. Southern terminus of the Shakuntala Railway in Maharashtra State, India (8)
13. Island in the Mediterranean Sea, separated from Italy by the Strait of Messina (6)
15. Director of the 2008 crime-thriller film "The Coverup" (5,3)
18. A 'non-album' single by British band Pulp, released in January 2013 (5,3)
19. The Teatro Real opera house is located in this Spanish city (6)
21. Clyde ___, was the American astronomer who discovered Pluto in 1930 (8)
23. A studio album from the Christian metal band Stryper, released in 2005 (6)
26. Songwriter and lead singer of the band Hot Chocolate, ___ Brown (5)
27. The standard monetary unit of Swaziland (9)
28. A comma, colon, hyphen or apostrophe (11,4)
Down
1. Athos, ___ and Aramis were the fictional characters comprising "The Three Musketeers" (7)
2. Published in 1890, "The Picture of Dorian Gray" was penned by ___ Wilde (5)
3. Canadian winner of the Show Jumping World Cup, in both 1988 and 1989 (3,6)
4. Track 3 on the Beatles 1963 studio album "Please Please Me" ___ (Go to Him) (4)
5. Actress cast as Jessie, in the 2009 thriller "The Chaos Experiment" (3,5)
6. Country music singer Slim Whitman was born in this city in 1923 (5)
7. Constellation containing the seven stars that form the Big Dipper (4,5)
8. A hormone produced in the pancreas, by the islets of Langerhans (7)
14. A sailboat with twin hulls, and with a single deck connecting the hulls (9)
16. The king of Mycenae and leader of the Greeks in the Trojan War (9)
17. Country holding the annual Naadam festival of wrestling, horse racing and archery (8)
18. Belgian city housing the world's oldest stock exchange, built in 1531 (7)
20. Scene of the evacuation of Allied troops in 1940, as France fell to Germany (7)
22. The metal sheath or tag at the end of a shoelace (5)
24. This studio album by Asia, the British rock band, was released in 2010 (5)
25. Author of "Red Poppies: A Novel of Tibet" (4)