Complete Clue List
Across
2. Collection of animals for display or education purposes
6. Cap with a flat circular top and a peak favoured by the French & American military in the past
7. American neighbour
8. Large city in Switzerland famous for financial transactions
10. Cultural Capital of Romania and third largest city
13. Man-made pile of raised stones used as a marker or burial mound [is almost a North Queensland city]
15. Adjective describing a person who can endure pain/hardship without showing their feelings
18. Thick, tightly packed
20. European dynasty - ruling house of Italy from 1861 to 1946 House of ____ OR a luxury London hotel
22. Prose written as verse
24. Suit jacket but no pants [sounds like it is prone to catch on fire]
26. Traditional game where rope rings are thrown to land over a spike
27. Coral ridge located below the waterline [but not low enough not to rip the bottom out of your boat]
28. Sense of self-esteem or self-importance which may need a boost now and again
Down
1. Member of Roman Catholic order of priests founded by St Ignatius Loyola & St Francis Xavier in 1534
2. Long tubular pasta type. When preceded by "baked" - pasta dish based on tomato sauce and cheese
3. Major Nebraskan city
4. Die or reach due date or time
5. Top cards or bottom cards depending on the game
9. The year Emperor Diocletian abdicated [in appropriate notation]
11. Ms Landers nom-de-plume of American advice columnist Ruth Crowley but not the Princess Royal
12. Eisenhower nickname
14. Poetry or prose describing rustic or pastoral scenes (alt. American spelling)
15. Tree 'blood' comprising nutrients and sugars
16. Suffix used in Latin-derived adjectives to indicate 'full of' or 'abounding' or a 'sugar' suffix
17. A word with two syllables, first is unstressed and the second is stressed
19. Blue-and-yellow-flagged country
21. Morbidly fat
23. An egg (just one)
25. Fuzzy hairstyle