CRYPTIC CROSSWORD: NO. 28,466

Across

1 Boob gets married – I use catcall crudely (12) 9 Fancy chair occupied by male after little time (9) 10 Light captured by Monet or Chagall (5) 11 The compiler’s left to provide meaning (6) 12 Company soldier died protected by second soldier (8) 13 Encore of Queen record with Plant (6) 15 Thin and starving finally after fish (8) 18 Seaside town beginning to be fashionably left-wing? (8) 19 Drive round the bend following British car (6) 21 Tars at sea circling lake in vessels (8) 23 Former politician effectively chasing work in retirement (6) 26 Carbon measurement should offer certainty (5) 27 Old judge catching one with trap to begin (9) 28 Drunken bore’s posture becomes unruly (12)

Down

1 Bank below motorway’s more obscure (7)

2 Fast-rising odds gathering support (5)

3 From oaf, term at Harvard produces results (9) 4 Munch cold cut (4) 5 Coastal area lacking imagination, we hear (8)

6 Symbol of support on head of Mohican (5)

7 Running topless and making an impression (8)

8 Crush bottom in endeavour to wear skimpy costume (6)

14 Untouched can must be gripped by force (8)

16 Beautify a girl with some sprucing up (9)

17 Wood covering empty mango’s top … (8)

18 … bough with top of bough spread (6)

20 Arbitrator’s swallowing deceit from substitutes (7)

22 Recovery establishment helping addicts’ behaviour initially (5)

24 Muse seeing her reaction, oddly removed (5)

25 Obscure English coin (4)