Complete Clue List
Across
1. A traditional song, usually sung at Christmas (5)
4. A piece of turf, such as one dug from a golf fairway when making a shot (5)
7. ___ Landau was the Minister of Tourism in Israel, from 2013-15 (3)
8. Simon ___, became lead singer with the group Duran Duran in 1980 (2,3)
9. A unit of magnetic field strength and letter of the Greek alphabet (5)
10. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet, uppercase X (3)
11. Sheetal ___ starred as Amina, in the 2007 historical film "The World Unseen" (5)
14. One tenth of annual earnings, formerly taken as a tax for the support of the Church (5)
17. ___ Austin Lamport was the mayor of Toronto, Canada, from 1952-1954 (5)
20. A small ground-dwelling songbird, similar to the lark (5)
23. In tennis a serve that the receiver is unable to reach (3)
24. A block of gold, silver, or other metal, typically oblong in shape (5)
25. Matthew Del ___ was cast as Nathaniel Rulough, in the 2013 film "Saving Lincoln" (5)
26. The French department assigned the number "01" (3)
27. Canadian painter Monique Régimbald-Zeiber was born here in 1947 (5)
28. The city of Auxerre is the capital of this French department (5)
Down
1. "___ of Unreason", a book published in 1973 by British scientist Christopher Evans (5)
2. The basic monetary unit of Russia, equal to 100 kopeks (5)
3. Studio album released in 1972, by the British rock band 'Audience' (5)
4. Any one of the numerals from 0-9, or one of your fingers (5)
5. "Exiled Sandwich" was an album released by indie rock band "___ Launch" in 1988 (5)
6. Crime fiction novel by American author Patricia Cornwell, published in 2004 (5)
12. ___ 9000, a fictional computer in Arthur C. Clarke's "Space Odyssey" series (3)
13. A novel from American author Stacey D'Erasmo, published in 2000 (3)
15. A former British chemical company, and also the French word for 'right here' (3)
16. "___ polloi", a phrase derived from the Greek language, meaning 'the masses' (3)
17. One of the 12 signs of the Zodiac, it's represented by a ram (5)
18. A German semi-automatic pistol, named after an Austrian firearms expert (5)
19. The capital city of the Brazilian state Rio Grande do Norte (5)
20. Issued in May 1840, the ___ Black was the world's first adhesive postage stamp (5)
21. In 1954, Jeff Chandler and Jack Palance starred in the film "Sign of the ___" (5)
22. The 1980 novel "A Confederacy of Dunces" was written by John Kennedy ___ (5)