Jamaica Gleaner

CRYPTIC CROSSWORD: NO. 28,458

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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)

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