The Brain Teaser

No. 8,545

1 2 9 8

ACROSS

1. Get to the lake the year after safely (8)

5. Walk aboard. There are vacancies (6)

10. Subsidence of the water, but it's nothing like enough (1,4,2,3,5)

11. Does it get its own back on a choppy sea? (7)

12. Heating the dread grated cheese (7)

13. Have the party in a new ale-bar that's charming (8)

15. Not saying anything about a caught bird (5)

18. He's got something new, rolled in gold (5)

20. Cheeky, bouncing the tennis ball left inside (8)

23. Nick or Mark (7)

25. About a fellow responsible for happenings in a lab (7)

26. Go in store (7,2,6)

27. Corrects half of them: the last parts (6)

28. Drag off, indeed humiliated (8)

DOWN

1. Try to find a missing pound Charles lost (6)

2. The girl and boy had a flirtation (7,2)

3. Someone behaving like a salesman who'll do the decorating? (7)

4. A vessel has capsized again, love (5)

6. The plan is to show a film (7)

7. What one believes to be a note on a pipe (5)

8. One's wrong to name the foreign girl (8)

9. They stop draughts (8)

14. The so-and-so is a b... arsonist! (8)

16. Gave the definition “put their heads together” (9)

17. Do, do keep it! (8)

19. Got out of a job that was wearisome again (7)

21. The figure given to someone employed as a trainee (7)

22. Remained for a year instead, surprisingly (6)

24. She's optimistic, we're told (5)

25. The gun fire worried a number hiding inside (5) 1 Partaken; 5 Pass up; 9 Ten hours; 10 Patron; 12 Took in; 13 Sandwich; 15 There and then; 18 Utter silence; 23 Arranged; 24 Curate; 26 Amused; 27 Meditate; 28 Honest; 29 Standard.

1 Potato; 2 Runs on; 3 Abolish; 4 Earn; 6 Awarded; 7 Straight; 8 Penchant; 11 Managed; 14 Praised; 16 Cut a dash; 17 Star turn; 19 Renders; 20 Caution; 21 Banana; 22 Behead; 25 Lent.