SATURDAY’S CRYPTIC SOLUTION:

ACROSS: 1 Humbug 5 Scarf 9 Topic 10 Obvious 11 Garb 12 Backache 16 Sagittarian 18 Plethora 21 Etui 23 Othello 24 Chill 25 Crank 26 Number DOWN: 2 Upper case 3 Buck 4 Good afternoon 6 China 7 Rough 8 Stage 13 Kerb 14 Coastline 15 High 17 Yield 19 Later 20 Tie-in 22 Scam