Complete Clue List
Across
1. British rock band whose tenth studio album "Distant Satellites" was released in 2014 (8)
5. "Mad" Dan ___ was portrayed by Spike Milligan, in the 1950's UK radio comedy "The Goon Show" (6)
9. Charles Williams Nash, the American automobile entrepreneur, was born here in 1864 (8)
10. A wooden stopper for the vent hole of a cask (6)
12. A novel by Australian writer DBC Pierre, winner of the Booker Prize in 2003 (6,3,6)
13. Dave Thomas the founder of Wendy's fast-food restaurant, was born here in 1932 (8,4)
17. System used to measure the strength of an earthquake (7,5)
20. Track 3 on American rock band Weezer's 2017 album "Pacific Daydream" (5,4,6)
22. Book of the Old Testament, listed between Nehemiah and Job (6)
23. Screenwriter of the 2018 film "Maze Runner: The Death Cure" (1,1,6)
24. Largest island in the Mediterranean, and the home of Mount Etna (6)
25. Final episode of the science fiction TV series Stargate SG-1, broadcast in 2007 (8)
Down
1. A small recess in the wall of a room or garden (6)
2. In Roman mythology, the Goddess of the dawn (6)
3. Apparatus containing a movable mirror, used to reflect sunlight in a fixed direction (9)
4. A French phrase meaning household of three people (6,1,5)
6. Punta Carena Lighthouse is located on this island in the Tyrrhenian Sea (5)
7. Released in 1960, the album "Autobiography in Blues" was recorded by ___ Hopkins (8)
8. Multinational auctioneering corporation, with HQ in New York but founded in 1744 in London (8)
11. Became the first women to hold the office of Prime Minister of France in 1991 (5,7)
14. British explorer Archibald Ross ___ became the 1st Administrator of Southern Rhodesia in 1890 (9)
15. Original name of the English instrumental rock group The Shadows (8)
16. A live album by Scottish rock band Big Country, released in 1996 (8)
18. The Museo della Carta (Museum of Handmade Paper), is located here in Italy (6)
19. German physicist awarded the Max Planck Medal in 1962, Ralph ___ (6)
21. Peter ___, New Zealand runner who won Gold Medals for both 800 and 1500 metres at 1964 Olympics (5)