The Brain Teaser

No. 8,665

ACROSS

1. Feeling emotional (8)

5. Dies when one tramples on it (6)

9. Given there is a drawback in having grass all round (8)

10. Twist and knot the wire round the ends of the torch (6)

12. Saying no deal, is about to turn in (6) 13. Again the dog got angry and again it happened (8)

15. Be madly unhappy? (4,4,4)

18. One tells you when spring is near (5-7) 23. Would a nurseryman selling it mislead one about the length? (4-4)

24. So I am uprooting at the foot of the elm, a plant (6)

26. Figure the man will get trapped in the swampy bog (6)

27. Enclosed in this he has “10”, folded up (8) 28. Dripping with money, an unconventional entrant (6)

29. Residents many guarded by dogs (8)

DOWN

1. It may be read out or delivered by a speaker (6)

2. Relax and let your hair down? (6)

3. Take this sack to hide amid the vegetation (7)

4. Want to take an extract from one edition (4) 6. Over an hour getting out is really hard! (7) 7. The relevant data (8)

8. More resolute, conduct the girl back in (8) 11. Fed up with it, I figure, entering the loss (7) 14. Overindulged, on the second page getting drunk (7)

16. Birds and animals all round the partition (8) 17. Anyway, must have been very sorry to have taken the trip (8)

19. As before, one goes back East by train (7) 20. That I would go into what happened is obvious (7)

21. The drunken author put out was not badlybehaved (6)

22. On the lid, there's a girl embracing a man (6)

25. He left here at half nine, with a

Frenchman (4)