Complete Clue List
Across
1. American writer, winner of the 1941 Pulitzer Prize for History (6,3,6)
9. A studio album from the American rock band Fairweather, released in 2003 (9)
10. A sweet nut with a thin smooth shell (5)
11. Kate Winslet portrayed Hester Wallace in this 2001 espionage thriller (6)
12. A traditional Chinese game also known as TouHu (5-3)
13. A small crude shelter used as a dwelling (6)
15. An album by Irish band Thin Lizzy, released in 1981 (8)
18. A coastal city in Texas, the birth place of retired astronaut Robert Crippen (8)
19. The 2014 album "Connecticut Casual" was released by this American hip hop artist (6)
21. "Dunston ___", a 1996 children's comedy film starring Eric Lloyd as Kyle Grant (6,2)
23. American racehorse Whirlaway won the 1941 Preakness Stakes, and was ridden by Eddie ___ (6)
26. An Israeli port city where Stella Maris Monastery is located (5)
27. David Carradine featured as Principal Hoskins, in this 2010 horror movie (9)
28. A 1995 comedy film directed by Woody Allen, featuring Mira Sorvino as Linda Ash (6,9)
Down
1. One of the three small bones in the middle ear, also called hammer (7)
2. British politician who became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in October 2022, ___ Sunak (5)
3. In 2007 both Matt Damon and Julia Stiles starred in "The Bourne ___" (9)
4. Alpha Lyncis is the brightest star in this northern constellation (4)
5. "The ___" Daily newspaper of Launceston in Tasmania, founded by James Aikenhead in 1842 (8)
6. A savoury jelly based on meat or fish stock (5)
7. A person who attempts to gain advantage by behaving in a servile manner (9)
8. ___ Newman starred as Jill Matthews, in the 1971 romantic drama "The Raging Moon" (7)
14. An album by American thrash metal band Sacred Reich, released in 2019 (9)
16. An artificial language with a vocabulary based on roots common to many European languages (9)
17. An Indian website established in 2006 by BG Mahesh, ___ .com (8)
18. David ___, former English professional footballer who married Victoria Adams in 1999 (7)
20. African capital city where the Blackitude Museum is located (7)
22. The debut album by Norwegian black metal band Vreid, released in 2004 (5)
24. In 2006 Steve Coogan starred as Ray Elliott in "The ___" (5)
25. A landlocked American state, where Little Cottonwood Canyon is located (4)