The Brain Teaser

ACROSS

1. Does it fence in the water? (9)

6. Fight waste (5)

9. In “Outline”, the fellow is described as “mischievous and charming” (5)

10. Perfume they tease one about in the country (9)

11. In which people were picked up when they got knocked down (5-5)

12. Fix the dining-room (4)

14. Second finish or second start (7)

15. Let back in to study with the German (7) 17. Having handed over, do we stop going round? (7)

19. Grazed and with a bad cut, going in to be dressed, dear (7)

20. I robbed from a wealthy chief (4) 22. In general, getting the upper hand (10) 25. Build you a skyscraper? That's asking a lot! (4,5)

26. In French, says to have the same again (5) 27. Renoirs or not, smashed up (5)

28. The faster you go, the more likely it is to catch you! (5,4)

DOWN

1. Gets out of the hangars? (5)

2. Got rid of labour, it seems, that's casual (9) 3. A lot of stupid people gathered together? (5,5)

4. Valid, if one's a policeman? (2,5)

5. It's not so easy to hide the ring from a collector (7)

6. In the bottom of the case there's a gold cross (4)

7. Called “The Eagle's Head Mountains” (5) 8. Will it keep a paper collar on? (5-4) 13. Straight-thinking? (4-6)

14. A constant follower of, from then on (4,5) 16. When the new wind-timer shows the gale force to be greatest? (9)

18. Makes fun of the foreign date (7)

19. Raved about at the opening of the season, to be contrary (7)

21. Evidently has the numbers – and names (5) 23. The gang will climb right in (5)

24. Having landed in Ireland (4)