The Brain Teaser

No. 8,590

ACROSS

1. Taking off on Sunday, going on holiday (9) 6. Meant one to appear in the morning edition (5)

9. Is quick to spread stories about a figure (5) 10. A secluded place for her man being overage (9)

11. Sorbet Cora prepared from old tongue (5-5) 12. So gets shut out (4)

14. Succeed in disrupting test match (4,3) 15. Camel to tow ship? (7)

17. Look for an Indian said to be away from home (4,3)

19. Turned so he came over to tear out the fruit (7)

20. A single man's element (4)

22. Letter the signatories circulated (5,5)

25. Plead for one to bury the said issue (9)

26. Not very big in Paris (5)

27. Funereal music played over the English network (5)

28. Sentence to be hung? (9)

DOWN

1. Setting sun is over the towers (5)

2. Riders I've despatched to the bank (9) 3. Report it lost – shop has been done over (6,4)

4. Succeed in crossing the Rhine on it (7) 5. People finding the answer to a cause of infection (7)

6. A dye from Manila (4)

7. Hot food over in Ireland (5)

8. Supplier of personal cover (5,4)

13. Too much French in a snooty English piece of oratory (10)

14. Said if one should get tried out (9)

16. Checked in one piece he'd put out (9) 18. Knight's back spur parts making little digs (7)

19. They call doubles (7)

21. Knockout Errol Christie suffered outside the ring (5)

23. No man could be so famous (5)

24. Press the old city-gent to cut fifty per cent off (4)