Complete Clue List
Across
1. Emeric ___ directed the 1953 British comedy film "Twice Upon a Time" (11)
7. The home of British journalism, in the City of London (5,6)
8. Test pilot who in 1947 became the first person to break the sound barrier, 'Chuck' ___ (6)
9. ___ Roddick, winner of the 2003 US Open men's singles tennis championship (4)
11. In 1983, Sally ___ became the first American woman in space (4)
12. British racehorse, winner of the 1000 Guineas Stakes in 1940 (6)
15. Producer, director and also the star, of the 1941 film "Citizen Kane" (5,6)
16. The Italian novelist Umberto Eco was born in this city in 1932 (11)
Down
1. In the 1928 American silent film "Yellow Lily" Charles ___ was Mayor of Tarna (5)
2. Poetic name for Ireland, taken from William Drennan's poem "When Erin first rose" (7,4)
3. Former Hindu custom whereby a widow burnt herself to death on her husband's funeral pyre (6)
4. The 2015 book "Defiant ___ Death (Master of War)" was written by David Gilman (4)
5. American bandleader whose plane went missing over the English Channel in 1944 (5,6)
6. A water vole in "The Wind in the Willows" who was known as ___ (5)
10. Family name of the second wife of Henry VIII and mother of Elizabeth I (6)
11. Logrono is the capital of the province of La ___ in northern Spain (5)
13. ___ Hinds was cast as Nurse Ramirez, in the 2014 romantic drama film "If I Stay" (5)
14. A collection of short stories by Gordon R Dickson, published in 1988 (4)