DAILY BRAIN TEASERS

Across

1 Live down under (5)

4 Paintings sent back, along with poems and crosses (9)

9 Make much ado about nothing concerning faulty crate (9)

10 Member holding head of orchid with a distinctive smell (5)

11 Almost all of team gathering at lift (7)

12 Pal entertaining wife with good talk (7)

13 Toff seen in Paris today (6)

15 Runaway due, about to be returned (8)

18 Viceroy in charge of small number in Greece (8)

20 This I’m cooking – a shank? (6)

23 The type of hat that can be eaten! (4-3)

24 Female, American, in genuine denial (7)

26 Visibly embarrassed in company revealing set of beliefs (5)

27 Took trendy object, as intended (3,2,4)

28 Time request to see church working party (4,5)

29 Gold rush territory, over there, enthralling our country (5)

Down

1 Missile’s loud deep sound resonated round base (9)

2 Belgian city, for example, i piece of fiction (5)

3 Justify tirade after conflict ( 4 Tricky question from a set prepared on the Queen (6)

5 Like apprentices, perhaps in short item by editor (8)

6 Look closely at test question (7)

7 Sample includes best timi device (9)

8 Coalmining waste across north, in jargon (5)

14 Rum inns serve Highland city (9)

16 Conductor and college fellow talked at length (7,2)

17 At the same time, move up, secured by rope? (8)

19 Rebuke agent over cover for house (7)

21 Childhood home, expensive (7)

22 British band, cross (6) 23 Ornamental loop: specia topic (5)

25 Tolerate criticism (5)