The Brain Teaser

ACROSS

1. The cupboard is, indeed, blue (9)

8. Keep, to look at (7)

9. Slim and about fifty, the remitter is (7)

10. Don't take a group over (7)

13. Before weaving the code into the story (8)

14. “The file,” you say menacingly (4)

16. Not nice cards and writing that's very hard to read (6,4)

20. A brace, we're told, for the tree (4)

22. Relax and the rain will stop (4)

24. Sticking the vehicle inside, resigned (4,6)

28. Bound, having finished off the apple, to start another (4)

29. Conclude it's all there (8)

31. Appeal to a naughty child to acquire knowledge (7)

34. The answer is to bug the foreigners (7)

35. One is restoring order in it and it's anything but nice (7)

36. Took back the parcel into the plant (9)

1. The total discouragement of Mr. Twain (7)

2. Here with a donation (7)

3. Stopped, indeed, when I had gone out (5)

4. From the beginning, refuse to play (7)

5. It's a switch back, miss (4)

6. Plan to get near (4)

7. Wander off by myself and subsequently return (7)

I get the doctor into a cab and return for the poet (6)

12. Like an idiot, restraining the gentle animal (4)

15. Barks from an upturned box (4)

17. The person who's come out on top, we're told (3)

18. Carry the little one with the false bottom (4)

19. Kid the dentist refused to treat? (6)

21. What comes after the M for “miss”? (3)

22. Gets tired of calling? (7)

23. The wrong cutting? (4)

25. Fancied a wee bit (7)

26. I next catch a cold? Wrong! (7)

27. Hard to grasp, when there's grasping all round (7)

30. Mean the master is in Italy (5)

32. Blow the hair (4)

33. Always put the name on one side (4) 11.

DOWN

3 Well-wisher; 8 Patter; 9 Rest; 10 Wellington; 11 Her; 13 Mess; 14 Reverse; 15 Ergo; 17 Float; 20 Loose; 22 Tier; 24 Letters; 25 Dolt; 27 Ego; 28 Shop-soiled; 29 Note; 30 Litter; 31 Palindrome.

1 Farewell; 2 Stalks; 3 Wrinkle; 4 Lento; 5 Warn; 6 Hitherto; 7 Retrieve; 12 Evil; 14 Rose; 16 Rots; 17 Folded up; 18 Optional; 19 Then; 21 Soldered; 23 Rissole; 25 Drifts; 26 Doggo; 28 Seed.