The Brain Teaser

ACROSS

1. Where he gets a commercial stage production put on first (9)

8. Determined fellow after a girl model (7)

9. Beginning, by the way, to follow a trail (7)

10. Get serious after some French score (7)

13. Song bearing grave message starting “Down by the riverside” (8)

14. Relax when released outside (4)

16. Not much of a ring, say, for Miss Trent (6,4)

20. Whilst holding jolly members (4)

22. Bet the poet's lost his head (4)

24. Girl holding net to wrap around doll (10)

28. Like one to take time over wine (4)

29. The enemy work on in confined situation (8)

31. Mixes with modern woman around the hearth (7)

34. Run through street clothes (7)

35. In the meantime, I'm to join Milan football club (7)

36. It's essential Lee cook bananas (9)

DOWN

1. Orders given by many a military commander (7)

2. Throw over head of a drunkard (7)

3. Cut and share out (5)

4. Get on with the other commuters? (7)

5. Head doctor had dinner engagement (4)

6. Rambo, no blockhead, turned tentmaker (4)

7. Runs away with quantities of paper (7)

11. Look after Neil who, maimed, gets a decoration (6)

12. Assert it's by the wayside (4)

15. Ask about English wine in Japan (4)

17. Where to stay in the North (3)

18. Connections one needs, in other words, to appear in 'The Times' (4)

19. Undermines part of what the judge assumes (6)

21. For the Roman many a time it's dull (3)

22. Drink to the doctor in charge's retort (7)

23. High water (4)

25. I'm to demonstrate it's better (7)

26. Then, after a little time, he gets rate reformed (7)

27. Be charming (7)

30. Eccentric route that winds about (5)

32. Delight in song (4)

33. South Africa, to me, appears unchanged (4)