Complete Clue List
Across
1. Central American country (2,8)
6. Initially, a maritime branch of American law enforcement
9. Prominent Toronto landmark (2,5)
10. Landlocked country bordering Azerbaijan
12. Former penal colony. External territory of Australia (7,6)
14. Bewitches
15. Reproductive cell
17. Largest city in Kazakhstan
19. Alan Alda's real first name
21. Time of year killing of animals is permitted (7,6)
24. Substance added to a system to effect a chemical reaction
25. Exterior
26. A southern European particularly from the Balkan Peninsula
27. Ratifies a document by annotation at its end
Down
1. Jan van ____ (b.~1390?1441) painter noted for Early Northern Renaissance art
2. Salmon Rushdie controversial 1988 novel:"The ____ Verses"
3. Manhattan district containing East Village, Alphabet City, Chinatown, Bowery, Little Italy (5,4,4)
4. John Lennon and John Wayne and Bob Hope
5. Mountain range Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma SE corner of Kansas
7. New Mexico capital (5,2)
8. Major mountain near Yellowstone National Park (5,5)
11. US state neighbouring Maine and Connecticut
13. Flag telegraphy systems
16. Nickname for a person from Nova Scotia
18. US Big Sky State
20. Chinese capital of Jiangsu province
22. Idiomatically, to support a popular cause: _____ the bandwagon (3,2)
23. Loch or Eliot