Complete Clue List
Across
9. Released in 1996, this was the first studio album from rapper Jay-Z (10,5)
10. Released in 2014, the studio album "1000 Forms of Fear" was recorded by this Australian singer (3)
11. English market town in the county of Wiltshire, and birth place of engineer Edward Thompson (11)
12. One of "The Three Musketeers", in the 1844 novel by Alexandre Dumas (5)
13. Common name for the medical condition epistaxis (9)
16. A 2018 film based on a 1976 hostage-rescue in Uganda, starring Rosamund Pike and Daniel Bruhl (7)
18. American Thoroughbred racehorse, winner of the Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes in 1956 (7)
20. American poet awarded the 'Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize' in 1994 (3,6)
21. Another name for the snow leopard, and also one sixteenth of a pound in weight (5)
22. A person who stuffs and mounts the skins of animals for display (11)
25. Josef ___, Australian actor cast as Sergeant Dominic Wales in the 2008-11 TV series "Rush" (3)
26. Irish Thoroughbred racehorse, winner of the Epsom Derby in 2013 (5,2,3,5)
Down
1. A city of eastern Australia, the location of the Nepal Peace Pagoda (8)
2. A landlocked republic to the south of Russia, its capital city was renamed Nur-Sultan in 2019 (10)
3. Kelly ___ English athlete, winner of both the 800 and 1,500 metres at the 2004 Summer Olympics (6)
4. German physicist who invented the mercury thermometer, Daniel Gabriel ___ (10)
5. "The ___", a 1988 science fiction film, with Kevin Dillon as Brian Flagg (4)
6. "Against Perfection" was the debut album in 1993 for this British rock band (8)
7. A 1998 romantic-mystery film starring Harvey Keitel and Mira Sorvino, "___ on the Bridge" (4)
8. "The ___ City", a novel by Australian writer K J Bishop, first published in 2003 (6)
14. Actress cast as Nazneen Khan, in the 2020 Canadian television series "Nurses" (5,5)
15. The county seat of Kittitas County in Washington, and birth place of actor Brian Thompson (10)
17. The ___, an American rock band whose studio album "Mountain Battles" was released in 2008 (8)
19. Actress cast as Letty Razon, in the 2016 Filipino film "Oro" (3,5)
20. English agriculturist who perfected a horse-drawn seed drill in 1700, ___ Tull (6)
21. The retail and entertainment district ByWard Market is located here in Canada (6)
23. The 2018 album "Find Us When U Get There" was recorded by British songwriter Scott ___ (4)
24. "Zombies: A Record of the Year of Infection" is a novel published in 2009 by Don ___ (4)