ACROSS

1 One may have regular trivial stuff on the Queen (5,5)

7 They could be in and out to lunch! (4)

9 Even British Airways facing cut (8)

10 Strange idea about New England work (6) 11 Fish left in sea mostly (6)

13 Two articles written about British vice drink (8)

14 Final cracks that cause division? (7,5)

17 Fools fiddle dodgy loans by Government (7,5) 20 Ford’s unpopular strike off (5,3)

21 One physicist taken aback by old capital (6)

22 Seductive female gets male so excited (6) 23 Acne risk treated with this? (8)

25 Ornamental stone almost worn out (4)

26 Subject of talk: northern slopes and heights (3,7)

DOWN

2 A doubly entertaining situation in middle-class novels (3-5)

3 Middle America’s open ground (3)

4 A nut is what’s under the bed (in a funny way!) (5)

5 Sellers in old cyclopaedia including heartless detail (7)

6 Doctor Who’s after run of publicity from these? (4,5)

7 Dessert and nuts left in mine (6,5)

8 Chicken pieces smelling bad in vans of Tesco and Sainsbury (6)

12 Up-to-date position from selectors at ground (6,5)

15 Most slender weapon kept in secluded place (9)

16 Flower or an avalanche? (8)

18 Hundred turning up before teas brewed lacking flavour (2,5)

19 Fleet Street ignored by celebrity, crazy one (6)

21 Book coming out about cattle and about sheep (5)

24 Pieces of haddock served up not this (3)