Complete Clue List
Across
1. Lifford is the county town of this Irish county in the province of Ulster (7)
5. The eldest of King Lear's three daughters, in Shakespeare's play "King Lear" (7)
9. Exceeded all expectations (9)
10. Country in North-East Africa, Khartoum is its capital (5)
11. An inn or hostel for pilgrims in Turkey (6)
12. Frederic Mistral, winner of the 1904 Nobel Prize in Literature, was born here in 1830 (8)
13. A subdivision of an area for military operations (6)
15. A person who deliberately starts fires, especially in buildings (8)
18. A piece of paper currency (8)
19. Game in which Rod Laver was the No 1 ranked player from 1964 to 1970 (6)
21. Term for items sold at considerably reduced rates (3-5)
23. An opening through which air or fluid is admitted to a machine (6)
26. The joint of the human arm (5)
27. American professional golfer, winner of the 1941 Masters Tournament (5,4)
28. "___ Rigby", a song from the Beatles 1966 album "Revolver" (7)
29. The area at the top of a set of stairs (7)
Down
1. Refuse to accept that something might be true or important (7)
2. Given birth name of Marilyn Monroe (5)
3. Author of the children's novel "Runaway Papoose", first published in 1928 (5,4)
4. An insulting word for a person who drinks a lot of alcohol (4)
5. In 1958 Robert Ryan and Aldo Ray starred in the American film "___ Little ___" (4,4)
6. Adjective relating to the nose (5)
7. Studio album from British rock band Marillion, released in 1998 (9)
8. "The ___ Day" a 1962 American war film, starring John Wayne and Henry Fonda (7)
14. John ___, English landscape painter of "The Hay Wain" completed in 1821 (9)
16. The 2014 Russian film "Leviathan" was co-written by by Andrey Zvyagintsev and ___ (4,5)
17. A 1955 British crime drama, starring Paul Carpenter as Larry Duke (5,3)
18. Nickname of Ohio, the "___ State" (7)
20. The Iditarod Trail ___ Race is run annually in early March from Anchorage to Nome (4,3)
22. Morehead is the county seat in ___ County, Kentucky (5)
24. A mayonnaise sauce flavored with garlic (5)
25. Move, float or glide smoothly through water (4)