The Brain Teaser

ACROSS

1. Showed how the foreigner said “opened?” (9)

6. What you said when the doctor asked, “Who's for wine?” (5)

9. Having caught the fish, hang on to it (5)

10. None – none under two, that is (5,1,3)

11. Is put in the stand, anyway, with the litigants (10)

12. One is half Tunisian and displaced (4)

14. By mid-evening, there is plenty of food (7)

15. Amaze one by taking back food for the animals to consume (7)

17. Not leaving love out in the stories and revealing one's abilities (7)

19. There's nothing in the rooms but cars (7)

20. In your hurry, knock the head off the broom (4)

22. Don't get flustered and don't get windy (6,4)

25. It's not true he's masquerading as a gangster (9)

26. Caught a number in the river, which is even more strange (5)

27. The material we wanted is half cut out (5)

28. Does one, after inhaling laughing gas? (4,5)

DOWN

1. Cut back by a month and one day (5)

2. From the baker, getting a wad of Continental notes (5,4)

3. Anyone who says it will make you tall, child, is fooling! (3-7)

4. And a lass dishevelled, without shoes (7)

5. Gives up when one disenfranchises? (7)

6. The chap with the scar? (4)

7. Confess to the doctor you are a killer (5)

8. By breaking the crate, sure to set free the animals (9)

13. A decrease in the number of fruit on the tree? (7,3)

14. What the draper made from his lace curtains? (3,6)

16. Won't stop talking about the fool; an academic (2,2,3,2)

18. Observes to be not working and gets rid of (4,3)

19. Seat the women inside and wrap them up (7)

21. Except for a number put into the ointment (5)

23. We'd remove the apostrophe, forsooth! (5)

24. Show you the way it attaches to the collar (4)