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BestCrosswords.com - "Hodgepodge" by James Silvers on 1/7/2007 [moderate]
Across 1- Scrunched up (8); 5- Graduates (6); 10- Land of the pharaohs (5); 11- Yankee Soldiers (4,5); 12- Transparent purple gemstones (9); 13- Number system based on the number eight (5); 14- Bureau (6); 15- Advise; Inform (7); 18- Accomplished musician; Composer (7); 20- Break into a conversation (4,2); 22- Egret (5); 24- Aim; Purpose (9); 25- Capable of being touched (9); 26- The opening few bars of a piece of pop music (5); 27- Who's the big ______ (6); 28- A tea named after a British prime minister (4,4);   Down 1- Roman emperor (6); 2- Group of universities and colleges in the northeast United States (3,6); 3- Cookware (7,8); 4- The residence of an ambassador (7); 6- Incapableness (4,2,9); 7- Intended (5); 8- Put down; affronted (8); 9- The largest republic of the Soviet Union (6); 16- Instigator (9); 17- Forceful and definite (8); 19- Orange and black songbird (6); 20- Castro's predecessor (7); 21- Snobish (6); 23- A rajah's wife (5);