Complete Clue List
Across
1. Valéry ___, French political leader who served as President of France 1974-1981 (7,1'7)
9. The second largest city in Croatia, the home of Diocletian's Palace (5)
10. An extended play record from Irish band the Cranberries, released in 1991 (9)
11. The Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) stadium Dr Hyde Park is located here in Ireland (9)
12. A studio album by The Beautiful South, released in 1994 (5)
13. Cotopaxi, the highest active volcano in the world, is located here in South America (7)
15. "___ 3" a studio album released in 2020 by American rapper Lil Yachty (3,4)
17. The French commune of Saint-Pierre-Église is twinned with this English parish (7)
19. An insulting word for someone who has extreme right-wing opinions (7)
20. Second book in the Darkwar Saga by US author Raymond E. Feist, "Into a Dark ___" (5)
22. Irish Thoroughbred racehorse, winner of the Vertem Futurity Trophy in 1999 (9)
24. English rock vocalist and guitarist whose studio album "Rogue Waves" was released in 1979 (5,4)
25. It's Tuesday in France (5)
26. Light Welterweight boxing champion at the 1975 Pan American Games in Mexico City (5,3,7)
Down
1. An illness in which the linings of the stomach and intestines become swollen and painful (15)
2. Bishop Wordsworth's School is located in this English city (9)
3. Name of the Great Dane in the American animated sitcom "The Jetsons" (5)
4. Novel by John le Carré published in 1983, "The Little ___ Girl" (7)
5. One of the two small cities in La Salle County, Texas (7)
6. American rock band, whose studio album "Trash Generator" was released in 2017 (4,5)
7. ___ Milicevic was cast as Stacey, in the 2003 romantic comedy film "Love Actually" (5)
8. Novel awarded the 1937 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (4,4,3,4)
14. The crime novel "Dead at Daybreak" was written by this South African author (4,5)
16. Binomial name of the bird Great Bustard (4,5)
18. The Brazilian professional footballer David Luiz was born here in 1987 (7)
19. Josh ___, American chess Grandmaster who was the U.S. Open Champion in 2013 (7)
21. The Flaming Lips 2009 studio album "Embryonic" features "I Can Be ___" at track 11 (1,4)
23. Melanie Griffith starred as Sarah James in this 2003 suspense thriller (5)