Thursday 21 May

Across

1 Just as orgasm prompts poem by Yeats … (3,6,6) 9 … wrongly read note by misfortunate Keats (7) 10 For example, Keats and Yeats (or not) (7) 12 Heretics are punished for unfaithful acts (11) 13 You might slip on this bats blood (6,4) 15 Light’s non-binding energy (4) 18 E … e (4) 20 Bible teaching wrongly maligns Eve (10) 23 Gordon’s starter presented to massive foody? (11) 25/11 That man follows backwash of river froth (6) 26 Playing bingo, the French are mean (7) 27 Beast of burden returned to castle (7) 28 Fascist leader controlled Houston with rumba master general (9,6)

Down

1 Backup part of database liable to corruption (9) 2 Sea-sick seabird from China? (7) 3 Challenging former lover on stage (8) 4 Huge honour to sit on banks of Seine (5) 5 Re-entering language course (9) 6 Gone wild with axes splitting something needed for fire (6) 7 Provide detailed account of quite miserable passage (7) 8 Donates, as replacing 4, 6 and 15 (5) 14 International waters still surrounded by dumb-asses (5,4) 16 Dropping dead, wrote frantically (6,3) 17 Fresher report of any toilet more sullied (8) 19 Take end from communion wafer – on reflection, an exaltation! (7) 21 Slight temperature dropping off with cool hormone (7) 22 A right-beginning, dotted-letter-including alphabet (6) 23 Sadness as building terminally fire-damaged (5) 24 Like Top Gun pilot’s taxiing speed (approximately) (5)