Complete Clue List
Across
1. The solving of problems by an indirect and creative approach (7,8)
9. Miraflor Nature Reserve is located in this Central American country (9)
10. The studio album "Graffiti Soul" was released by Scottish band Simple ___ in 2009 (5)
11. A 1950 British war film, starring Anna Neagle and Trevor Howard (6)
12. The Shrine of the Cloak is located here in Afghanistan (8)
13. A Roman Catholic period of prayer, lasting nine consecutive days (6)
15. Language designed to have a persuasive effect on its audience (8)
18. Pancho ___, winner of the US Open men's singles tennis title in 1948 and 1949 (8)
19. '___ like passing strangers now' is the opening line of the 1957 song "Passing Strangers" (2,4)
21. A 1998 studio album from the American metal band Fear Factory (8)
23. Language spoken by most people in the Middle East and in North Africa (6)
26. Tamsin ___ was cast as Simon in the 2009 British thriller "Cuckoo" (5)
27. A novel by American author Elizabeth Berg, published in the year 2000 (4,5)
28. A large steel sculpture on a hilltop in NE England, created in 1998 by Antony Gormley (5,2,3,5)
Down
1. American politician Dick Cheney was born in this US state capital in 1941 (7)
2. In Greek mythology the goddess of fortune (5)
3. An imaginary kingdom of central Europe, in the 1894 novel "The Prisoner of Zenda" (9)
4. A symbol used by a company to advertise its products (4)
5. The Indian hero of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1855 narrative poem (8)
6. A science fiction novel published in 1950, by American author George O. Smith (5)
7. Australian swimmer, winner of 3 gold and 2 silver medals at the Sydney 2000 Olympics (3,6)
8. Relating to or involving the stomach (7)
14. Published in 1932, the second novel by English writer Anthony Powell (9)
16. Bruce Lee led as Sam, in this 1960 Hong Kong drama (3,6)
17. American singer born in 1947, with the birth name Marvin Lee Aday (4,4)
18. US state in which Martin Luther King Jr. was born in 1929 (7)
20. The King of Scotland who died in 1057, immortalised by Shakespeare (7)
22. Robert Redford and Debra Winger starred in the 1986 comedy film "___ Eagles" (5)
24. Chris ___ was Lieutenant Nelson, in the 2016 thriller film "Money Monster" (5)
25. The third son of Adam and Eve, as recorded in the Old Testament (4)