Complete Clue List
Across
1. "An Australian Girl in London" is a novel published in 1902 by ___ (6,4)
6. Winner of the men's long jump at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland, Yusuf ___ (4)
9. An amusement park in Anaheim, California, which opened in 1955 (10)
10. Former British Prime Minister Anthony Eden was also designated 1st Earl of ___ (4)
12. Houari Boumediene, President of Algeria until his death in 1978, was born here in 1932 (6)
13. "The ___", a 2011 American action thriller starring Jason Statham and Ben Foster (8)
15. A novel by English author Mary Shelley, published in 1818 (12)
18. Released in 1995, the studio album "Draconian Times" was recorded by this heavy metal band (8,4)
21. A model or standard for making comparisons (8)
22. A brass musical instrument with a narrow tube and flared bell (6)
24. The god of love and son of Aphrodite in Greek Mythology (4)
25. A 1964 American horror film, starring Bette Davis and Peter Lawford (4,6)
26. Former beauty queen crowned Miss Missouri USA in 2001, Larissa ___ (4)
27. Track 5 on Christina Aguilera's 2006 album "Back to Basics" (10)
Down
1. A lake northeast of St. Petersburg, the largest lake in Europe (6)
2. County Fermanagh is one of the nine counties in this Irish province (6)
3. American football team the Merseyside Nighthawks are based here in England (12)
4. A landlocked republic in north-west Africa, Bambara is the national language (4)
5. Camila Cabello stars in the title role of this 2021 romantic musical film (10)
7. Ian ___, English actor cast as Private Pike in the BBC sitcom "Dad's Army" (8)
8. A novel by British writer Ian McEwan published in 1990, "The ___" (8)
11. A studio album by British rock band Coldplay, released in 2014 (5,7)
14. In the 1950 musical comedy film "Nancy Goes to Rio", ___ starred as Frances Elliott (3,7)
16. A 1927 American comedy film, with Earle Foxe as Eric Brasingham (8)
17. A pale yellow flower that grows wild in the countryside (8)
19. Something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained (6)
20. "It ___ at Me" fifth track on metal band Pelican's 2019 album "Nighttime Stories" (6)
23. Eric ___, former member of the British comedy troupe Monty Python (4)