The Brain Teaser
ACROSS
1. What to wear when gloomy or upset (8) 5. A duller affair (6)
10. Does it make for a total lack of racial prejudice? (6,9) 11. When ill, sent out to get food (7) 12. A killer against whom there are charges (7) 13. For speed, stick it inside (8) 15. Gather you wish you hadn't gone round the church (5) 18. Writes down the names the composer's mentioned (5) 20. Member of a team – of church workers (8) 23. Let nothing slip from your grip (4-3) 25. Deliveryman! (7) 26. Help a body to think big? (7,4,4) 27. When fed-up, there's point in having rows (6) 28. Storms and rants about a politician (8)
DOWN
1. Is such a smile an ill-humoured one? (6)
2. The little master dawdles and tries to get out of school (9) 10
3. The usual procedure is to take our turn at one ten, about (7)
4. What one may assume is a bee in a ramblingrose 11 (5)
6. Can he hear the sounds of cooking? (7)
7. The general tendency is to turn right at the bottom (5) 17
8. Did again put it away (8) 18
9. How horrified we'd be if the year were shortened by a month? (8)
14. About five, unable to pay their debts, are 23 impudent (8)
16. Excellent fish? That's pork! (9)
17. A collection of all the letters you've ever 26 written! (8)
19. Wrap up and take a couple of days in Wales, wandering (7) 27
21. Increases when the pet cat is about to return (5,2)
22. Businesses in which one man backs another (6)
24. Semi-detached? (5)
25. Boy to whom I give a girl's name (5)