Financial Times 14,435 by Wanderer

Can anyone help explain 19 across?

 

 

 

 

Across

1,4 BEHIND THE TIMES dd (square) (NI publish The Times)

9 YONKS long time YANKS (Americans) with A swapped for O (oxygen gas)

10 OUTRIGGER boat [y]OU TRIGGER (set off)

11 WAYLAYS ambushes WAY (road) LA (US city) Y[e]S

12 ENTRAIN board train (Orient Express) EN TRAIN (in progress – going)

13 LARK singer L (left) ARK (boat)

14 HEADGEAR hat [m]ADGE (Margaret) in HEAR (find out)

17 POSTCODE part of address POST (after) C[owper] ODE (poem)

19 ODDS chances

22 ELEMENT dd (As represents arsenic, an element)

24 EPITAPH set in stone (IT HAPPENS)* minus NS (bridge partners)

25 OSTRICHES people avoiding reality OST (east – German) RICHES (wealth)

26 CIDER hidden backwards in [p]REDIC[t] in round in pub

27,28 STAMFORD BRIDGE Chelsea football ground and 1066 battle

Down

1,20 BOYS WILL BE BOYS that’s lads (SO BOBBY LILY SEW)*

2 HONEYTRAP seductive scheme [p]HONE (call) PARTY< (person involved)

3 NISSAN car IS (ones) S (second) in NAN (older relative)

5 HOT-HEADEDNESS impetuosity Harry & Houdini both start with H (hot)

6 THISTLE national emblem HIS in (LETT)*

7 MAGMA hot stuff G[inger] in MA MA (degrees)

8,16 STRONG AS A HORSE like punch (HOSTS ARRANGE SO)*

10 OYSTER-CATCHER bird (EACH TORY CREST)*

15 RED-HANDED caught in the act RED (embarrassed) HANDED (given)

18 SHERIFF judge Scots SHE (Rider Haggard) RIFF (repeat phrase)

21 MINCER affected walker hidden in [ver]MIN CER[tainly]

23 EXTRA dd

( )* = anagram    < = reverse    [ ] = omit    dd = double definition