| YOSSARIAN | The 28-year-old captain in Heller's Catch-22 (9) |
| ATALOWEBB | Visiting Balliol regularly with old captain in poor spirits (2,1,3,3) |
| TWENTYTWO | How many players at Wembley figure in Heller work? |
| JOSEPH | ___ Heller, Catch-22 novelist (6) |
| MOBEEN | Man Like _, BBC comedy in which Guz Khan portrays a 28-year-old Muslim raising his sister (6) |
| SMALLPARTS | On May 13, 28-year old Molly Gordon was named as director of this aptly titled forthcoming movie about indie film actors |
| KEYSONAPIANO | Heller's Catch x FDR's 'Freedoms' = ___ |
| 22 | Joseph Heller's Catch |
| RAJASTHAN | Largest of the 28 states of India, in the north-west on the border with Pakistan (9) |
| GERIATRIC | Old captain joins Tiger Air abroad (9) |
| STREISAND | Singer who dated tennis star Andre Agassi, who was 28 years younger, in the early 1990s (9) |
| AUDITORIA | A mutiny to elevate atmosphere at the 28? (9) |
| CERNUNNOS | Sister in Swiss laboratory turning thus sees the 28 |
| RAGEVIRUS | "28 Years Later" bug also known as the Infection |
| TAMILNADU | Southernmost of the 28 states of India, formerly (until 1968) known as Madras (5,4) |
| BELIEVERS | The ___, 2008 novel by Zoe Heller (9) |
| CATCHXXII | Roman translation of a Joseph Heller novel? |
| SALLYFIELD | Actress who had a 28-year gap between Oscar nominations for 1984's Places in the Heart and 2012's Lincoln: 2 wds. |
| CATCH | The tricky one in Joseph Heller's book was, the best there is, the twenty-second one |
| ORR | Yossarian's tent-mate in Joseph Heller's 1961 novel, Catch-22 (3) |
