DOUBLE TROUBLE

ACROSS 8 Cast a spell on (9) 9 ___ Wednesday, TS Eliot poem (3) 10 Applicable to a group (7) 11 Little and ___, 1980s comedy duo (5) 12 A Nightmare on ___ Street, horror film (3) 14 1974 David Essex film (8) 16 Oxter (8) 18 ___ the Nine O’Clock News, 1980s comedy series (3) 21 Alone ___ (Naturally), 1972 Gilbert O’Sullivan hit (5) 23 Picketer (7) 25 ___ Bread, Under Milk Wood character (3) 26 18th-century empress of Russia (9) DOWN 1 Darwin’s ship (6) 2 ___ Getz, jazz saxophonist (4) 3 Sea area west of Viking (4,4) 4 Source of gum arabic (6) 5 Pop ___, contest won by Will Young in 2002 (4) 6 Rex ___, Dr Dolittle actor (8) 7 ___ of Fortune, old game show (5) 13 Top civil servant (8) 15 Burns’ home in the 1790s (8) 17 Effects (6) 19 Romantic 19th-century landscape painter (6) 20 House of ___, political thriller written by Michael Dobbs (5) 22 Anatomical location of the hyoid bone (4) 24 ___ Dullea, actor in 2001: A Space Odyssey (4)

ACROSS 8 Captivated (9) 9 Fire residue (3) 10 Having no trademark (7) 11 Big (5) 12 Deciduous tree (3) 14 Magical quality (8) 16 Type of deodorant (8) 18 Word expressing denial (3) 21 Once more (5) 23 Attacking footballer (7) 25 Welsh boy’s name (3) 26 ___ Tate, comic actress (9) DOWN 1 Breed of hunting dog (6) 2 ___ Lee, Spider-Man’s late creator (4) 3 Multi-coloured knitted pattern (4,4) 4 Genus of pod-bearing shrubs native to Australia (6) 5 Effigy of a god (4) 6 ___ Ford, Star Wars actor (8) 7 Tyre-covered part of a car (5) 13 Fruit similar to a satsuma (8) 15 ___ and Galloway, Scottish region (8) 17 Company’s possessions (6) 19 Aidan ___, Poldark star (6) 20 Aces or jacks, eg (5) 22 Thin part of a bottle (4) 24 James ___ Hardie, Labour Party founder (4)