The Brain Teaser

ACROSS

1. It's mean to have accepted and dived into it! (8)

5. Decline to give the parents a drink (4,2)

9. Then turned terribly sour in less than a day (3,5)

10. The customer has no right to a penny if it's returned! (6)

12. Fooled, one admitted (4,2)

13. Said the old crone on the beach will provide food (8)

15. Immediately, but not here and now (5,3,4)

18. What you should get if you say “Shut up”? (5,7)

23. Called in a subverter, as decided upon (8)

24. Stick the animal inside, father (6)

26. A laughing “Haven't been put out to grass yet” (6)

27. Think a friend of the editor took it in (8)

28. The stolen money has been turned in.

Truly (6)

29. Support, as usual (8)

DOWN

1. A container to hold a plant (6)

2. The man, while the sun streams through, keeps talking (4,2)

3. It's a toss-up over his possible repeal (7)

4. After a year, long to be off the dole (4)

6. Dead worried about the strife, granted (7)

7. The barman's neat – and tidy (8)

8. Write and sing to, having a weakness for (8)

11. Ran ahead of the old fellow (7)

14. The pair performing the understanding man applauded (7)

16. Remove a hyphen to look big (3,1,4)

17. To begin with, the runabout is what everyone wants to see (4,4)

19. Gives to the people who are tearing up (7)

20. A card for Prudence (7)

21. Bleat when the girl comes in with fruit (6)

22. Kill to get the position of chief (6)

25. About a quarter are leased furnished, for a time (4)