LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION, No 1180:

ACROSS: 1 Synchronise 10 Alan Paton 11 Adele 12 Upslope 13 Stun gun 14 Literature 16+18 Navy blue 19 Nobel Prize 25 Dario Fo 27 Otter 28 Muscovite

DOWN: 2 Yeats 3 Cupboard 4 Retreat 5 Non-user 6+9 Seamus Heaney 7+24 Samuel Beckett 8 Benghazi 15 Truncate 17 Sparrows 18 Baboon 20 Ottoman 21 End-user 22 Evoked 23+29 George Bernard Shaw 26 Ouija