Complete Clue List
Across
1. Released in 2005, a studio album by the English band Depeche Mode (7,3,5)
9. Bamber ___, presenter of the English TV quiz show "University Challenge" from 1962-1987 (9)
10. "How to ___ Your Dragon", a 2010 animated film directed by Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois (5)
11. Playground equipment consisting of a long board balanced on a fulcrum (6)
12. Coffee brewed by forcing hot water through finely ground darkly roasted coffee beans (8)
13. American heavy metal band Huntress released this studio album in 2015 (6)
15. The capital and largest city of Sierra Leone (8)
18. A person who is expected to be present at an event but does not appear (8)
19. A Spanish dance in triple time accompanied by guitar and castanets (6)
21. Canada's National Summer Sport (8)
23. A small natural hollow in the cheek or chin (6)
26. A mission in San Antonio, Texas, the site of a siege in 1836 by Mexican forces (5)
27. The largest island in the world, and a self-governing province of Denmark (9)
28. Director of the 2021 American musical romantic drama "West Side Story" (6,9)
Down
1. In Greek mythology, the winged horse that sprang from the blood of the slain Medusa (7)
2. A passageway between rows of seats, for example in a church (5)
3. Closing track on side one of John Lennon's 1970 solo album "John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band" (9)
4. ___ Golightly was cast as Libby, in the 2018 dance comedy film "Step Sisters" (4)
5. American guitarist, whose solo album "The Moon Is Falling" was released in 2003, Joel ___ (8)
6. A 2019 American romantic drama film, starring Josephine Langford as Tessa Young (5)
7. Liberal statesman who served as British prime minister four times in the 19th century (9)
8. United States politician who was the first President to be assassinated (7)
14. A legal thriller by John Grisham published in 2009, "The ___" (9)
16. Released in 2000, the debut album by American R&B singer Carl Thomas (9)
17. Jeff Fahey stars as Dr. Richard Murray, in this 2007 British film (8)
18. Released in 2018, a studio album by British duo Let's Eat Grandma, "I'm ___" (3,4)
20. An album from the Keef Hartley Band, released in April 1971 (7)
22. An allotrope of oxygen, with the chemical formula O3 (5)
24. A psychological novel by American writer Gene Wolfe, published in 1975 (5)
25. A large hairy humanoid creature, said to live in the Himalayas (4)