Complete Clue List
Across
1. A sub-tropical city in Australia's National Rugby League team (8,7)
9. Person from northern Scandinavia
10. Mesoamerican culture
11. Land mass surrounded by water
12. Rose Bowl city
13. Had beaten someone to the finish line
15. California national park
18. Useful contraption to hear live commentary on the game you are watching
19. Red giant star and the second-brightest star in the constellation of Pegasus
20. US Mid-West city, home to the University of Michigan Wolverines (3,5)
22. Max, German theoretical physicist known particularly for quantum mechanics
25. Dead heat
26. Rock landmark within 15A (2,7)
27. Baseball team that came into American League as an expansion team in 1977 (7,8)
Down
1. Major American sporting team. Not the Colts (wrong city) nor the Orioles (wrong sport)
2. Drive forward
3. Pressure someone into changing their beliefs
4. Without clothes
5. Island country in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies. Famous for producing fast cricket bowlers
6. Mid-West US home of the Lancers Ice Hockey franchise
7. Queen Consort of England as Henry VIII of England's first or fifth wives
8. California-based National Basketball Association team (10,5)
14. Rather large spider
16. Australian trees type
17. DNA structure that has the potential to cause cancer
21. Stoked the fire (2-3)
23. Indiana University, Fighting Irish, ____ Dame
24. US West Coast college known by its initials and Bruins nickname