Complete Clue List
Across
1. American author, best known for her 1868 novel "Little Women" (6,3,6)
9. American state capital, the birthplace of author F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1896 (5,4)
10. President of the Swiss Confederation in both 1991 and 1998, Flavio ___ (5)
11. Elsie ___, former character played by Pat Phoenix in the British TV soap "Coronation Street" (6)
12. It produces a reaction in a plant, animal or person (8)
13. A 1950 British war film, starring Anna Neagle in the title role (6)
15. George Eliot's very first novel, published in 1859 (4,4)
18. Scottish lake, said to be inhabited by an aquatic monster (4,4)
19. American playwright Eugene ___ was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1936 (1'5)
21. The site of the crucifixion of Jesus, also known as Calvary (8)
23. The 2006 studio album "October Language" was recorded by this experimental music duo (6)
26. Lhasa is located in this autonomous region of the Peoples Republic of China (5)
27. "Video Killed the ___" according to The Buggles in 1979 (5,4)
28. The official motto of the Royal Air Force, and some Commonwealth Air Forces (3,5,2,5)
Down
1. Maseru is the capital and largest city of this landlocked country (7)
2. A 2012 studio album from Canadian country rock band Cuff the Duke (5)
3. Kelly ___, Gold medal winner of the Women's Heptathlon at the 2006 Commonwealth Games (9)
4. Author of the "Throne of Glass" series of novels, first published in 2012, Sarah J. ___ (4)
5. An archaic term for the Christmas period (8)
6. A person who stands in temporarily for someone else of the same profession (5)
7. German-born pharmacologist, awarded the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (4,5)
8. Napoleon's niece Mathilde Bonaparte, was born in this Italian port city in 1820 (7)
14. In Arthurian legend, the sword belonging to King Arthur (9)
16. Jay Cooke State Park is located in this Upper Midwest US state (9)
17. American TV personality, cast as Tracy in the 2015 sitcom "The Jack and Triumph Show" (6,2)
18. Track 10 on Canadian rapper Drake's 2015 debut studio album "Thank Me Later" (5,2)
20. Genoa is the capital of this region of north-western Italy (7)
22. A freshwater fish-eating mammal of the weasel family, with webbed feet (5)
24. A group of eight singers or instrumentalists (5)
25. A studio album from the Bee Gees, released in 1968 (4)