Complete Clue List
Across
1. Dip something below the surface
5. Type of distilled liquor, regional
9. Baseball: Beyond the bases but between the foul lines
10. French Canada, (so to speak)
12. Mixed alcoholic drink with bourbon or whiskey, sugar, crushed ice and sometimes mint
13. Conductor through which electricity enters or leaves a given object
14. Descriptor for one who has traditional values (3-9)
18. Corrective action by a motorist to avoid the back end of a car from spinning out
21. Large American production automobile (usually from the 60-80s) with a very powerful motor (6,3)
23. A monarch's kingdom
24. Pertaining to a group of people with a common culture
25. Replaced by something more contemporaneous
26. Ms Plath, British novelist
27. American hats named after their brand name
Down
1. Capital and largest city of North Macedonia
2. Sustained fight usually an armed conflict
3. Surveys of electors leaving a facility after voting (4,5)
4. Jason and the Argonauts' contraband (6,6)
6. Hardened coating or outer layer
7. Prohibiting or forbidding a certain behaviour
8. Spanish large estate or plantation replete with dwelling and associated buildings
11. British dish of cheese sauce with ale and mustard on toast with no leek nor lagomorph in sight (5,7)
15. The very core of something
16. Optical apparatus used on a camera to bring objects close (4,4)
17. William, (1738 ? 1822), Astronomer, discovered Uranus
19. Small roofed garden building
20. Remnants of a fire
22. Mario's twin brother, also a plumber