Tuesday 2 June

Across

8 Unstructured feature of shelf reef or massif (4-4) 9 Agitate live, dumped freshwater fish (5) 10 Great opera houses going under? The opposite (4) 11 Ken’s verbal rendering of ‘To be, or not to be’, say (5,5) 12 Condescending southern outdated name given to Clark? (6) 14 Rubbish, vacuous tutorial fills the silence (8) 16 City’s upset with ref, right? (7) 18 Martin’s residence in row that’s not highly rated? (3-4) 21 Transferred in the manner indicated (8) 23 One struggling to comprehend the Guardian gets Observer (6) 24 Anticipation’s useless except with name-dropping former First Lady (10) 26 Stiff, wow, having died inside! (4) 27 Also diverted river as energy source (5) 28 Wisdom of imposing flag on a large community (8)

Down

1 Cover figure in fancy crepe (8) 2 Live recording’s electronic alert (4) 3 Devious worker, bully and lout getting a rise (6) 4 Laying it on thick: ‘One’s too old for love’ (7) 5 Hiker told about covering arduous walk (4) 6 Lingering sensation of behind getting smack (10) 7 Shelves heaving – husband’s abandoned junk? (6) 13 Excessive to introduce diamonds into construction of Bill the artist? (10) 17/15 Pleasure to manage sporting charity event (3,3) 19 A relative (not I) appropriating little Dorothy’s account (8) 20 Spare cape’s peculiarity (7) 22 It is male discrimination? (6) 23 Goya worked in extremely venerable passage (6) 25/26 Spooner’s Rivulet Sailing Course retreat (4,4)