Complete Clue List
Across
1. Italian novelist and poet, awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature (5,10)
9. Monterrey is the largest city in this state in Mexico (5,4)
10. George H. ___ was the 49th Governor of Rhode Island, from 1905 to 1907 (5)
11. The novel "___ and Men" by John Steinbeck was published in 1937 (2,4)
12. A small rocky body orbiting the sun (8)
13. Ernest Shackleton sailed in this ship on his 1908 Expedition to the South Pole (6)
15. Released in 1990, the album "Stolen Moments" was recorded by Lee ___ (8)
18. A 2012 American horror movie, starring Ethan Hawke as Ellison Oswalt (8)
19. ___ Topp was cast as Dylan, in the 2015 film "A Sort of Homecoming" (6)
21. A person who was born in Tirana or Elbasan (8)
23. The studio album "Sunny Days" was released by this R&B girl group in 2001 (6)
26. The 2003 studio album "I'm Just a Girl" was recorded by country singer ___ Carter (5)
27. Father of the composer of the 1825 opera "Don Sanche" (4,5)
28. Winner of the "Irish 2,000 Guineas" Group 1 horse race in 2002 (4,2,9)
Down
1. American actress Hilary Swank was born here in Nebraska in 1974 (7)
2. Part of the small intestine, between the jejunum and the cecum (5)
3. The highest German military decoration for bravery in wartime (4,5)
4. A wild mountain goat, with long curved horns (4)
5. A person who believes it is impossible to know if a god exists (8)
6. A studio album from the rock band Beautiful Creatures, released in 2005 (5)
7. Study of the general physical characteristics of rocks (9)
8. Andrés Manuel López ___ became the 58th President of Mexico on December 1st, 2018 (7)
14. At 15,777 ft above sea level, it's the highest mountain in the Alps (4,5)
16. Repetition of speech by a child learning to talk (9)
17. The Great Mosque of Central Java is located in this Indonesian city (8)
18. An abusive attack on a person's good name or character (7)
20. A citizen who has a legal right to vote (7)
22. Roderick Alleyn is the hero of multiple detective novels by ___ Marsh (5)
24. The only horse ever to defeat
Man o' War, at Saratoga Race Course in August 1919 (5)
25. The novel "The Sea of the Ravens" by Harold ___, was published in 1983 (4)