Complete Clue List
Across
1. In Beatrix Potter books, the mother of unruly kittens Moppet, Mittens and Tom Kitten (7,8)
9. A means of protection from financial loss (9)
10. The 2019 studio album "Les failles" was recorded by this French singer (5)
11. The son of Chaos and Greek god of darkness, who dwelt in the underworld (6)
12. Timo ___ was cast as Shane Lyons, in the 2011 drama film "Judas Kiss" (8)
13. A 2008 live album by the Canadian comedy music group, The Arrogant Worms (6)
15. United States district judge Timothy Sylvester Hogan was born here in Ohio in 1909 (8)
18. An overseas territory of France off the eastern coast of Canada, Saint Pierre and ___ (8)
19. An angle between 90 and 180 degrees (6)
21. The second largest of the Channel Islands, and home of Aurigny Air Services (8)
23. A large group of armed ships sailing together (6)
26. Concordia is the county seat of ___ County in Kansas (5)
27. Ancient Greek city, later renamed Constantinople and then Istanbul (9)
28. A novel by Irish author Edna O'Brien published in 2015, "The ___" (6,3,6)
Down
1. A spear with three prongs, and also a submarine-launched ballistic missile (7)
2. A 1978 album by Oscar Peterson and Count ___, "Yessir, That's My Baby" (5)
3. British Thoroughbred racehorse, winner of the 1828 Oaks Stakes at Epsom Downs (9)
4. A 1968 collection of short stories by Harlan Ellison, "Love ___ Nothing But Sex Misspelled" (4)
5. Track 6 on the Black Eyed Peas 2010 studio album "The Beginning" (8)
6. Capital city of the western Mexican state of Nayarit (5)
7. Seirei Christopher University is located in this large city in Japan (9)
8. The betrayal of allegiance toward one's own country (7)
14. A pungent blue cheese from Southern France made from sheep's milk (9)
16. A complex system of connecting passages in which it is easy to get lost (9)
17. In the United States it's the Native American Indian Heritage Month (8)
18. Irish Thoroughbred racehorse, winner of the Tattersalls Gold Cup in both 2019 and 2020 (7)
20. The older brother of Charles Darwin, born in 1804, ___ Alvey Darwin (7)
22. The studio album "Ahora" was released in 2019 by Mexican singer Christian ___ (5)
24. A novel by American author Joseph Kanon, published in 2005 (5)
25. In the 2005 film "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", Afshan ___ was cast as Padma Patil (4)