LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION

ACROSS: 1 Backers 5 Album 8 Lop 9 Improve 10 Array 11 Give 12 Pitfall 14 Excuse 16 Bridge 19 Rostrum 21 Soda 24 Stiff 25 Telling 26 Eye 27 Lager 28 She’ll-Ed

DOWN: 1 Bait 2 Capri 3 Elopers 4 Sleepy 5 Apart 6 Barmaid 7 Mayflies

13 Reprisal 15 Casting 17 Resolve 18 Smites 20 Re(e)fer 22 Drill 23 Aged