Complete Clue List
Across
1. A novel by Kel Robertson published in 2008, winner of the 2009 Ned Kelly Award (5,3,7)
9. Eric Roberts and James Earl Jones starred in the 1990 comedy thriller "The ___" (9)
10. American computer scientist, winner of the Turing Award in 1987, John ___ (5)
11. The condition of being unable or unwilling to speak (6)
12. A large barrel or cask with the capacity to hold 63 gallons (8)
13. Chris Barrie was cast as Arnold ___, in the BBC sci-fi sitcom "Red Dwarf" (6)
15. A person who uses force to take and maintain power in a country (8)
18. Alan ___ director of "The Jazz Singer", the first film to use spoken dialogue (8)
19. A straight line cutting a curve at two or more points (6)
21. In Roman mythology the god of sleep and dreams (8)
23. The actress who starred as Jeannie in the sitcom "I Dream of Jeannie" was born here in 1931 (6)
26. The 1981 children's novel "The Stolen Lake" was written by Joan ___ (5)
27. A 1946 film from Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman (9)
28. The Channel between southern Italy and Sicily, linking the Tyrrhenian and Ionian seas (6,2,7)
Down
1. A speech disorder causing hesitation and the repetition of certain sounds (7)
2. The curved path of a celestial object around a planet or moon (5)
3. The pen name used by English novelist Emily Bronte (5,4)
4. "And Then There Were ___" according to a retitled Agatha Christie novel (4)
5. A pattern of words or letters, used to aid one's memory (8)
6. A studio album by American rock band Aerosmith, released in 1976 (5)
7. A musical ensemble usually composed of string, brass and woodwind instruments (9)
8. In 2018 Joey King starred as Wren, in the supernatural horror film "___ Man" (7)
14. The colloquial name for a person from Wiltshire, (see my profile!) (9)
16. James Daugherty was awarded a 1957 Caldecott Medal for illustrations, in "Gillespie and ___" (3,6)
17. An indirect and usually malicious implication (8)
18. A navigational instrument for finding directions (7)
20. The northernmost country in Africa, in which the city of Sfax is located (7)
22. The One Pillar Pagoda is located in this Asian capital city (5)
24. The name of Finland, as used by the country's inhabitants (5)
25. The basic unit of a chemical element (4)