Complete Clue List
Across
1. Scottish football club based at Palmerston Park, Dumfries (5,2,3,5)
9. A republic in south-east Asia, on an archipelago of more than 13,000 islands (9)
10. A device that transmits and receives data to establish network and internet connections (5)
11. A studio album by the Black Eyed Peas released in 2009 (3,1.1.1.)
12. Debut novel by American writer Jill Alexander Essbaum, published in 2015 (8)
13. Cancer or Capricorn (6)
15. Australian Thoroughbred racehorse, winner of the 2009 Melbourne Cup (8)
18. Examining something in detail in order to understand it (8)
19. "Venomous ___", opening track on metal band Sinergy's 1999 album "Beware the Heavens" (6)
21. A song by Elton John from his 1982 album "Jump Up!" (8)
23. Aaliyah starred as ___ in the 2002 vampire film "Queen of the Damned" (6)
26. A city in north-central Quebec known as the Queen of Haute-Mauricie, La ___ (5)
27. A 1978 American comedy film, with Cheech Marin as Pedro De Pacas (2,2,5)
28. A 1948 movie, starring Alexis Smith, Eleanor Parker and Sydney Greenstreet (3,5,2,5)
Down
1. A group of five singers, or a piece of music composed for such a group (7)
2. A 1945 musical comedy film starring Ann Miller and Joe Besser, "___ Was a Lady" (5)
3. A person regarded as being of no importance or significance (9)
4. A device that can interrupt the flow of electrical current when overloaded (4)
5. An 1855 epic poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "The Song of ___" (8)
6. Rock band Automatic Loveletter was formed in 2005 with Juliet ___ as vocalist (5)
7. An American political thriller with Nick Nolte as Russell Price, released in 1983 (5,4)
8. The second-largest city in Germany, and Europe's third largest port (7)
14. A fantasy novel by Fiona McIntosh in the Percheron series, published in 2005 (9)
16. City in Mobile County, Alabama, birthplace of Ray Sawyer of Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show (9)
17. Montana Grizzlies football team hail from this city often described as the "hub of five valleys" (8)
18. "Bon ___", a track on Katy Perry's 2017 album "Witness" (7)
20. A triangle with each side of different lengths (7)
22. A studio album by Jennifer Rush, released in March, 1997 (5)
24. The official language of Finland (5)
25. Suva is my largest and also capital city (4)