Last Week’s Cryptic

ACROSS

1. A point to queen’s dance – traditional venue for a quartet (6,4)

6. Circle prison – it’s not closed down! (4)

10. Bundy, violate! cried Spooner of the bureaucratic impediment (3,4)

11. T in the canopy (7)

12. Puzzle gone? Who cares! (2,7) 13. Pyromania from a boy, about right (5)

14. Scent and sound of a nomad (5)

15. Howl with desire about nothing – a bit jaundiced (9) 17. Scold actors with a single entrance (9)

20. American rears idiots (5) 21. A nude performance poet (5) 23. One drink in verbal tests – no copies (9)

25. Good – also for little king called great and wizard! (7) 26. Encouraged popular saw (7) 27. Cover over English–German song (4)

28. On the whole, fib and shove, suggested Spooner (2,3,5)

DOWN

1. Poet beside Clarke (5)

2. Spreads out leftish English plots (9)

3. Ms Marie Saint with a quiet speech to severely critique a dish for drying out solids like salt (11,3)

4. Poet returns positive about The Inferno (7)

5. Procure top mail – the best! (7) 7. Tapes wounded heads (5) 8. Wordplay in Spanish nights – and if not pulled, you won’t hold back! (2,7)

9. Mama can Galileo reform? He’s drunk with power! (14) 14. Australian right and left hold surplus money for Raphael or Gabriel (9)

16. Grant, cover place in a grave immediately (9)

18. Supporter holds up idiot shortly showing no emotion (7)

19. Issue, amend, charge (7)

22. Poet’s stake below 500 (5) 24. Little and unemployed – move furtively (5)