DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD
No 15,780
ACROSS
6 Get ready to fight cases involving Victoria maybe (6,8) 9 Apple seed very good by end of autumn (6) 10 Unjustifiably claim Yorkshire town’s lost hotel (8) 11 Old Jew’s harp needs fixing, I understand (8) 13 Editor withdraws cunning plan for spread (6) 15 New suit designed to impress date? He won’t wear it (6) 17 Wool from kiang or alpaca? No, rabbit or goat (6) 19 Each expert straddles one in gym (6) 20 Boat going off to avoid one Arctic carrier (8) 22 One female in fast car stole parcel niftily (8) 24 Alto managed to breathe in, say, smoothly (6) 26 Post-watershed outré gang slang possibly? (6,8)
DOWN
1 Glazing 14 right away where sightlines converge (9,5) 2 Stage favourites turn up (4) 3 More than one place to find stray money (6) 4 Scold husband I’d seen in Scottish isle (8) 5 A king avoids producing porcelain (4) 7 Small cushions covering rear of fine quarterdeck? (6) 8 Should we stand for this Countryman on the motorway? (8,6) 12 Journey across top of Grampian mountains (5) 14 Spike publicity to do with golf (5) 16 Tickets are cheap for this English queen in theatre (8) 18 More work (6) 21 Old airline’s brought in to carry whale (6) 23 Whistle for canine perhaps endlessly (4) 25 Crack plug, getting spike (4)