The Brain Teaser

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ACROSS

1. What those who watch TV haphazardly have? (2,3,4)

8. Pop back with Pearl to change one's clothes (7)

9. Foolishly rib the band about clothing (7)

10. Bird fight with a difference (7)

13. Can one go in through it but never out? (4-4)

14. Return with a second after ages (4)

16. For soldiers, the opposite of joining up (10)

20. Without the suffix (4)

22. And after we get to our feet, point (4)

24. How a doughboy looks? (5-5)

28. Speak sweetly and softly or shut up! (4)

29. Eats the ice-creams, retaining the money (8)

31. When the wrong soldiers are captured, torture them (7)

Describing the divers as “river-apes” is wrong! (4-3)

Crack a nut, have a drink and get straightened out (7)

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DOWN

Denied the information had been retracted and the date changed (7)

Help reverse the very foreign vehicle inside (7) Melted down and strained (5)

What the fisherman hauls about with him? (7) Stretch back for rests (4)

Just a wood surround (4)

Looks black while they shine (7)

Time and again the victim trapped is attractive (6) She didn't remain below (4)

“Fostering”, to a Latin master (4)

An animal with character, we're told (3)

Can a choir master get a great deal out of him? (4) Come about an hour before dad goes back to prison (6)

Make sure you understand (3)

Just a little good weather for the holiday (7)

Mark got hardly half (4)

Possibly tend to carry a gun because trampled on (7)

Gets as far as “It totals...” (5,2)

The main inside disorder, or sickness (7)

Realises a number will enter, but they're expected to win (5)

Cut a figure, you admit (4)

The time will be about an hour, in that case (4)

No. 8,660

SOLUTION TO PUZZLE No. 8659:

ACROSS: 3 Falling off; 8 Corral; 9 Loot; 10 Stay-at-home; 11 Ash; 13 Enid; 14 Miranda; 15 Rose; 17 Get on; 20 Budge; 22 Eyed; 24 Orkneys; 25 Rasp; 27 Off; 28 Hard labour; 29 Rime; 30 Rushes; 31 Name-plates. DOWN: 1 Continue; 2 Brayed; 3 Flatter; 4 Lemon; 5 Idle; 6 Obtained; 7 Fishcake; 12 Grub; 14 Mere; 16 Owes; 17 Good omen; 18 Take from; 19 Need; 21 Gestures; 23 Dollars; 25 Robust; 26 Front; 28 Heel.