CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Magazine features extraordinary pair’s wedding (5,5) 6 Telephone put back (4) 9 Food flavouring

for fans, fishy (7) 10 This may reduce

sound of organ stop (7) 12 Turning one’s back on

crime – working, even (5,8) 14 Arranged to repeat work

by Offenbach, perhaps (8) 15 Criminal blamed for

pandemonium (6) 17 Shock fine just? (6) 19 Snark and its

peculiar language (8) 21 Getting agreement (13) 24 Melting ice does in

parts around cathedral (7) 25 Rest unhappy following

cock-and-bull story (3,4) 26 Splash of colour in

heart of cedar wood (4) 27 Covert charge in bargain basement’s ending with husband on duty (7,3)

DOWN

1 Stake large sum of money,

holding Spades (4) 2 United following umpire – gosh, he’s fleeing (7) 3 A restaurant may make this accusation after function (7,6) 4 Deny oneself information offered up during decline (8) 5 Talk about

energy fraud (5) 7 Against the rules, off-colour

English girl used (7) 8 Authorised to run away with current partner (10) 11 Family magazine disagreed, for a change, with others around (7,6) 13 Bewildered prisoner set up (10) 16 Periodical trouble working over in plant (8) 18 Fashionable small cross – upset it’s under cover? (7) 20 I’m toxic to livestock, and grow wild in desert (7) 22 Inside centre, a trained nurse (5) 23 Soundly criticises Scottish reformer (4)