THE BS CROSSWORD

ACROSS

8 They never leave us, we've been told (4) 9 A space ploy, perhaps a cataclysmic event (10) 10 Exist with just part of interest (6) 11 Save for a desalination plant ? (4,4) 12 Rudolf holds nothing back, love, for piety (8) 14 Andrew's final letter before he has breather gets out of hand (6) 16 Horribly heartless, yet pure in heart (4) 17 Pacifists went down quickly in American South (5) 18 Loud and loose fibre ? (4) 19 After tea the bottoms come at the bottom and still win (6) 21 Answer that's only 50% correct (3,3,2) 23 Inherent in the human race within one thousand net variation (8) 26 Sorts things out by degrees (6) 27 You cannot depend on a blue liner changing course (10) 28 Do a good one, and it will be repaid by chance ! (4)

DOWN

1 Cooler soul blended bleach (4,6) 2 Simply following Greek in ingratiating fashion (8) 3 A lot of talk about cake? (6) 4 Highballs not served at court (4) 5 Poet Laureate no longer active widely, as in Motion (3,5) 6 Get Ray to turn (6) 7 Very big state mountain in Thessaly (4) 13 A green and mountainous part of France (5) 15 Means of travel by land and sea (5,5) 17 Difficulty in discerning character of Lydia's ex, possibly (8) 18 Sent fair assortment of painting, sculpture etc. (4,4) 20 One arm broken, one keeps complaining (6) 22 A ring for a little bird, by the sound of it (6) 24 Don't like, but look after (4) 25 A small cask transformed into a wind instrument (4)