Complete Clue List
Across
1. A musical composition written by Sergei Prokofiev in 1936, as a fairy tale for children (5,3,3,4)
9. An artificial waterway extending across central New York from Albany to Buffalo (4,5)
10. An automatic signal warning of danger (5)
11. The 2007 album "Cimarron Manifesto" was released by singer-songwriter Jimmy ___ (6)
12. Thoroughbred racehorse owned by Queen Elizabeth II, winner of the 2013 Ascot Gold Cup (8)
13. The 2006 studio album "For Hero: For Fool" was released by this American hip hop group (6)
15. Published in 1979, a novel by Kurt Vonnegut (8)
18. A novel by American physician and novelist Robin Cook, published in 2018 (8)
19. A former British gold coin worth 21 shillings (6)
21. A brass instrument consisting of a long tube, its length can be varied by a U-shaped slide (8)
23. The Egyptian god of the underworld and husband and brother of Isis (6)
26. ___ Ridley starred in the title role of the 2018 historical drama "Ophelia" (5)
27. A 1964 American film relating to the Korean War, with Jim Davis as Sergeant Walsh (4,5)
28. American historian, winner of the 1941 Pulitzer Prize for History (6,3,6)
Down
1. Whitestone Park sports ground is located in this town in the Scottish Borders (7)
2. A young adult fantasy novel published in 1996 by Megan Whalen Turner, "The ___" (5)
3. The county seat of Montgomery County, Maryland, and site of Bingham-Brewer House (9)
4. Released in September 2019, an album by American rock band Blink-182 (4)
5. A 1984 fantasy novel co-written by Stephen King and Peter Straub, "The ___" (8)
6. Japanese physicist Leo ___, co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1973 (5)
7. Starring Colin Firth and Matthew Macfadyen, a 2021 British war drama "___ Mincemeat" (9)
8. Award-winning Canadian blues band, whose album "First Class Riff-Raff" was released in 2002 (7)
14. A broad cartridge belt as worn over the shoulder by soldiers (9)
16. The delightfully named Honey Island Swamp is located in this US State (9)
17. A plant having a life cycle that normally takes two seasons to complete (8)
18. The Albert Einstein Science Park can be visited in this German city (7)
20. Danish statesman who served as the bishop of Roskilde from 1158 until 1192 (7)
22. American Thoroughbred racehorse, winner of the Delaware Oaks in 1957 (5)
24. Mel Gibson starred as Sergeant Martin ___ in the Lethal Weapon film series 1987-1998 (5)
25. American author Martin Cruz Smith penned this 1996 novel set in 1872 Lancashire, England (4)