Times 25838 - Undressing or not?

Solving time: 38 minutes

Music: Thompson, The Plow that Broke the Plain, Stokowski/Symphony of the Air






This should have been an easy one, but I was scribbling away and put in a wrong answer without thinking, leaving me quite stuck for a while at the end. 'Weatherproofing' was my undoing, and only after about 10 minutes of struggle did I realize it must be wrong. Then I was able to enter 'Omani' and 'redshank', but I was still unable to see the right answer for 1 down. I considered 'getting on' in the sense of 'aging', and in the sense of 'being friends together', but in the end it turned out to be just getting on.

Ulaca and I have been indulging in a rather extensive series of swaps, so you'll have him for the next couple of weeks. I'll be back the first week of August, when the regular rotation will resume for a while.

Across
1	WELSH, WE + L + S[o]H[]o, a friendly starter clue.
6	CLUBBABLE, double definition.
9	ABANDONED, A(BAND ONE)D.
10	OUNCE, [p]OUNCE. A venerable chestnut.
11	HOTPOT, HOT + POT, another escapee from the Quickie.
12	ARMENIAN, A(R)MEN + IAN, a write-in from the literal if you know where Yerevan is.
14	RESISTANT, anagram of RAINS, TEST.
16	PROWL, PROW + L[iner].
17	OMANI, [r]OMANI[a]. I wasn't so sure which countries were on the Black Sea, but this seemed likely enough.
19	INDICATOR, INDIC(A)T + OR.
21	REDSHANK, R(anagram of SHED)ANK. 'Row' has many uses in puzzles.
22	AMOEBA, AM(o[ld]E[uropean])BA, a rather awkward clue, but a write-in from the literal. Curiously, you never see a paramecium in these puzzles.
25	IDIOM, DI backwards + I.O.M, not parsed when entered by me.
26	THRILLING, TH(RILL)ING.
27	GREEN BELT, double definition.
28	THYME, TH(-e,+[chemistr]Y)ME. I first tried the ridiculous momble 'toyic', but quickly erased it.
Down
1	WEATHERBOARDING, sounds like WHETHER + BOARDING. Easy enough if you see it right away, I suppose.
2	LEAST, L(E)AST.
3	HIDEOUS, H(IDE)OUS[e].
4	CENT, sounds like SENT.
5	UNDERSTUDY, cryptic definition.
6	BOOZE UP, sounds like BOOS, + UP in the sense of 'at university'.
7	BANDICOOT, BANDI(COO)T.
8	ETERNAL TRIANGLE, double definition in different senses.
13	MARIONETTE, anagram of ONE MATTER I.
15	STANDPIPE, STAND + PIPE, where the DBE is properly indicated by 'say'.
18	INHUMAN, IN(HUM, A[ntelope]N.
20	CAMELOT, CAM + E + LOT, another Quickie clue.
23	EDIFY, hidden in [fe]ED IF Y[ou]. This sense of 'improve' is heavily 19th-century.
24	BRAT, B(R)AT.