The Brain Teaser

ACROSS

1. It's a mistake, the baker selling it (7)

5. Stops and puts things away (5,2)

9. Signs of Pole being in some difficulty (5)

10. Cut short after abrupt return of girl (9)

11. Butter required in the German plays (6)

12. What one's suffering from in state rigout? (8)

14. Cockney greeting to a Scottish town (5)

15. Makes Charles endlessly promise to provide the illumination (9)

18. Gets the Swiss to cook the alevin (9)

20. Break down outright, being not very strong (5)

22. Aeolian footwear seen at the airfield (4-4)

24. The horse was quiet subsequently (6)

26. Not an experienced defender, but worth something in America (9)

27. Material from Northern Ireland? No, it's French (5)

28. Decline to give the boy money (7)

29. Dad's wise to make the journey (7) 3.

DOWN

1. Does it make the dandy come clean about the massacre? (9)

2. To get the garment finished will take a couple of pounds (7)

If you handle it badly the man's image will be affected (9)

4. Stretch to destruction? (4)

5. Possibly father holding the letters up for the assembly (10)

6. This piece of furniture is cleaner, I interposed (5)

7. Making the roads safe seasonally? (7)

8. It's home, note, for a chaplain (5)

13. Lamentation about Charlie heard in church (10)

16. With which to rescue fifty-one cats? (9)

17. The variation allowed for Patience (9)

19. They're armed for the dance (7)

21. She has a nation to represent (7)

22. Carried on and got the silver within a day (5)

23. Not much of a burn for the French primate (5)

25. Omit to jump (4) 1 Articles of war; 8 Matelot; 9 Respect; 11 Drench; 13 Persuade; 15 Caste; 16 Aconite; 18 Inkling; 19 Sight; 21 Alter ego; 23 Benito; 25 Norwich; 26 Startle; 28 Imaginary line.

2 Rotters; 3 Ill; 4 Late; 5 Sure enough; 6 Fuses; 7 Average; 8 Made certain; 10 Twenty to one; 12 Cheek; 14 Saying when; 17 Issue; 18 Interim; 20 Glisten; 22 Ruing; 24 User; 27 All.