Complete Clue List
Across
1. Automated intersection signalling device (7,5)
8. Mitsue Aoki, Japanese Manga artist birthplace - city between Osaka and Kobe
9. Donald, former US President, OR a high rank in card games
11. Unsuccessful winners
12. Arguably, a South Carolinian's favourite tree
13. Three chukkas make one of these. (Sport favoured by the Royal Family) (4,5)
16. Informal name for one's father
18. Unlawful seizure of power from a government (is not quite a sport two door version of a sedan)
19. Universal language, constructed
21. Bone from the lower portion of a pig. Used as meat, usually served as a rack of similar bones (5,3)
22. First Russian czar titled emperor (1672?1725) sometimes known as "The Great" (5,1)
25. Earliest known major Mesoamerican civilization, founded in Mexico
26. Usual title for the head of state of a republic
27. Soldiers who jumped from planes to fight the enemy behind lines
Down
1. Snares but NOT members of the German singing family that inspired the "Sound of Music"
2. Words that make others by rearranging the letters
3. Wing movement or state of agitation
4. Inadvisable to take a bull into this type of store (5,4)
5. Met the deadline: Just____ (2,4)
6. Gerhart, German dramatist and novelist. Won Nobel Prize (Literature) in 1912
7. Spanish artist who co-founded Cubism (5,8)
10. Leading characters in any given field of the arts (but especially literature)
14. Blood malignancy (British spelling)
15. The nickname of US footballer made famous by Ronald Reagan character "Win one for ___" (3,6)
17. Elevation at which woody plants do not grow
20. One of the three Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in Britain. Midlands area. (Don't ask for forgiveness)
23. A sporting fencer's tools
24. A person charged with retrieving items with outstanding unpaid debts: ____ Man (informal)