No Escape Puzzle

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Across
  1. 2. Address that belongs to the dead (5)
  2. 4. Solar ruler, Louis (3,4)
  3. 6. Large French house (7)
  4. 7. Clocked figure in the family (11)
  5. 8. Old contests that harden into vendettas, sibling competition (9)
  6. 11. What killers commit, or company for crows (6)
  7. 13. Author of No Escape (1,1,7)
  8. 14. Sound returning, – of the past (4)
  9. 17. Morning cartoons, or tragedy in Verona (8)
  10. 18. This very puzzle (9)
  11. 20. Secured under (4,3,3)
  12. 22. Cain’s crime in a single word (9)
  13. 23. He gazes at the stars to seek "inspiration from God", Vermeer in oil (10)
  14. 24. What diaries keep, and whispers share (7)
  15. 25. Dark style of fiction or architecture (6)
  16. 26. Romulus and Remus (5)
  17. 28. What every story needs and every peace fears (8)
Down
  1. 1. Control that looks like magic until you notice who’s moving (12)
  2. 3. CBBC game show where children couldn’t escape (7)
  3. 5. Bitter division in church, Great (6)
  4. 9. Legacy, or what heirs fight over (11)
  5. 10. Final verdict, or reckoning to come (9)
  6. 12. Principle of simplicity (6,4)
  7. 13. Butterfly royalty (7)
  8. 15. Alexandre, who made musketeers famous (5)
  9. 16. Device for characters, or a writer’s weapon (10)
  10. 19. Genre puzzling readers endlessly (7)
  11. 20. Da Vinci, DiCaprio (8)
  12. 21. Year De Gaulle walked the Champs-Élysées (8,5,4)
  13. 27. Illuminated name for the City of Love (4,2,6)