The Brain Teaser

ACROSS

1. Conclude the number is really hot (7)

5. In which one teaches the girls to be on key (7)

9. Said one takes off the outside rings (5)

10. Suffering when Leo slips into a coma (9)

11. Also covering a race and a show (6)

12. Colours, as usual (8)

14. Works for the Navy during a sea-storm (5)

15. When the chaps came in, Thelma ordered cheese (9)

18. Decides it's not good enough and it's too loud? (5,4)

20. Getting a decoration when I am captured in action (5)

22. Smuggle the sailor away in a car (8)

24. Start running with one in the passage (6)

26. A dog – and it is frisking round a girl (9)

27. An attempt to mislead, in a foreigner (5)

28. Oriental flower in the bottom of the garden (7)

Soft and tender when cooked, you will have us believe (7)

DOWN

1. A testy “The doctor's treating me” (9)

2. Be complimentary and more, even (7)

3. The person's wrongly given two points for the answers (9)

4. Up to and as far as his name (4)

5. Make one think of a warning cry (4,2,4)

6. For half the year, was boss of the island (5)

7. Just what you need when you're cold and dirty? (3-4)

8. Pass the time shopping? (5)

13. Rising and turning (10)

16. In a tent I pitched, I do business (9)

17. Became a blonde and lost some weight? (9)

19. Giving the status and name still annoys one (7)

21. Think that is the master taking a drink inside (7)

22. Part that on a bird is a rib (5)

23. The grass one asked to have put round the lake (5)

25. Bark for the picture (4)