Across
- 4. Stubbornly uncooperative (12)
- 6. Japanese nuclear disaster 2011 (9)
- 7. Catholic Pope during investiture conflict
- 10. Self-governing
- 12. Upright (8)
- 15. Large-scald uprising against state of institution
- 16. Study of human history through recovered objects/materials
- 18. Ancient Chinese dynasty (3)
- 20. Power and right to command others (9)
- 21. Standing (social); situation at a given time (6)
- 22. Excessive obedience and servility (14)
- 25. Fifteenth US President (8)
- 26. Territory subject to foreign rule (6)
- 27. One part of a divided whole; to divide (7)
Down
- 1. Clear of blame or suspicion
- 2. To triumph; overcome against opposition (7)
- 3. Not the same; other (9)
- 5. Hanging gardens; Ancient Mesopotamian city (7)
- 8. State of excessive age or dysfunction
- 9. Ancient Greek historian
- 11. (Greek Mythology) Son and Husband of Gaea; God of the Heavens (7)
- 13. Descendants from a common ancestor; sequence of species (7)
- 14. Roman opposition in Punic Wars; home of Hannibal
- 17. Liberator of South America
- 19. Battle of the Three Emperors 1805 (10)
- 23. Capital of Nigeria (5)
- 24. Deeply-rooted; not remmovable
- 28. Turkic slave-warrior (6)