H Crossword no 1,905 H

TO ENTER Complete the crossword and count how many times the letter ‘Y’ appears in the grid. Post your entry to YOU Crossword No 1,905, PO Box 5332, Cardiff Lane, Dublin 2. Closing date is Friday, May 17. One random winner from all correct entries will win a €15 book voucher. The winner will be notified within 14 days (telephone number required). Solution in two weeks.

ACROSS

1 All the weblogs on the internet collectively (11)

7 What Stan Laurel or Horatio Nelson had named after him (3)

9 (and 10 across, 13 down, 16 down) Proverb that comes from Psalms 8:2 (3,2,3,6,2,5,3,9)

10 See 9 across

11 A period of intense competition among retail enterprises (5,3)

12 The longest river in Britain (6)

14 Finish all the food and drink (6,3)

15 Roman emperor from 79 to 81 AD (5)

17 Messrs Schama, Pegg, Hughes or Day (5)

19 Primitive feelings or behaviour (9)

21 Continent (6)

23 Monument, shrine (8)

25 US state (9)

26 John, the Are You Being Served? star (5)

27 1887 novel by H Rider Haggard (3)

28 Plants you might associate with a 1936 George Orwell novel (11)

DOWN

1 Long tubes used to shoot poisoned darts (9)

2 Currently appearing in a court of law (2,5)

3 Quiet time of the year to go on holiday (3,6)

4 Ancient Ionian Greek philosopher and polymath (10)

5 Proverbially, they are the window of the soul (4)

6 Secretly run off together (5)

7 Forbearing (7) 8 Ship’s officer (5)

13 See 9 across

15 Series of books, plays or films (9)

16 See 9 across

18 Large tent for events (7)

20 Tool or machine for clipping, paring or pruning (7)

21 Surname of the last woman to be hanged in Britain (5)

22 Italian carb (5)

24 Heavenly stringed instrument (4)