Complete Clue List
Across
1. Studio album by Roberta Flack, released in August 1973 (7,2,6)
9. The annual Carnival festival held in New Orleans, Louisiana (5,4)
10. In the 2010 teen comedy film "Ratko: The Dictator's Son", ___ Shah was cast as Layla (5)
11. The debut album from American rapper Qveen Herby, released in 2021 (1,5)
12. Roald ___, Norwegian explorer who in 1911 became the first person to reach the South Pole (8)
13. In Greek Mythology a beautiful youth loved by Aphrodite (6)
15. A group of boats or small ships sailing together (8)
18. American racehorse, winner of the 1965 Kentucky Derby, Lucky ___ (8)
19. Indian actor cast as Ravana, in the 1961 film "Sampoorna Ramayana" (1,1,4)
21. A 2008 romantic fantasy film, starring Kristen Stewart as Bella Swan (8)
23. City in the U.S. state of Georgia, birth place of the singer Ray Charles (6)
26. Any group of eight, especially eight singers or musicians (5)
27. Breed of small terriers with long heavy coats, raised in Tibet as watchdogs (5,4)
28. A 1972 book by Roger Kahn, recounting his childhood in Brooklyn (3,4,2,6)
Down
1. The capital and largest city in Uganda (7)
2. In music a passage that is to be performed in a slow and dignified manner (5)
3. A 2007 Canadian film starring Vanessa Bauche and Jesse Aaron Dwyre (9)
4. Bella Thorne stars in the title role of this 2020 thriller film (4)
5. A group of musicians, actors or dancers who regularly perform together (8)
6. Released in 2007, "Culture Vultures" was the final album by this rock band (5)
7. Actor cast as Daryl, in the 2012 British zombie comedy "Cockneys vs Zombies" (4,5)
8. A 1945 musical-comedy starring Fred Astaire as Johnny Parkson Riggs, "___ and the Thief" (7)
14. A dungeon with a trapdoor in the ceiling as its only means of entrance or exit (9)
16. Chennai is the capital and largest city of this state in the south of India (5,4)
17. In the 2019 movie "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark", Zoe Colletti was Stella ___ (8)
18. Motown singer Diana Ross was born here in Michigan in 1944 (7)
20. Cara ___ portrays Jeanne-Marie Ponsardin, in the 2023 period drama "Widow Clicquot" (7)
22. "Breaking Us ___", track 6 on Joe Jackson's 1982 album "Night and Day" (2,3)
24. A type of thin pancake originating from South India and Sri Lanka (5)
25. 50% (4)