Across
1
Potato I coated in chocolate and seed put before Queen (5,5)
6
Noisy scene, mass online chat (4)
9
Concede around New Year: 'Florida's where retiree might live' (6,4)
10
Goes spearing, we're told, in hellish river (4)
12
About time pilots returning, each a long way off (7,5)
15
Pronounced a little slaver 'redeemable' (7)
16
Help to oversee French swine, not on air (2-5)
19
Author's two automobiles? Almost (7)
20
Being successful, UN had pop tune composed (2,3,2-3-2)
24
Palace where ninth stanza read aloud? (10)
25
Nasty infestation tormenting scalps, primarily! (4)
26
Upset that dodgy actress secures vehicles (6,4)
Down
2
Read 1,000, not 500 + 500 sheets of paper (4)
3
The son shrugs off noisy creatures (4,8)
4
Toward wicket, one lacking faith died down (7)
5
The last ictodosaur, somewhat resilient (7)
7
Cowboy may be seen here, avoiding saloon? (2,3,5)
8
Adjusted sound of quiz with plenty of meat (5,5)
11
Ruin anecdote about some choreography (5,7)
13
Where those who are harmless are said to have no weapons? (4,6)
14
Everyman has pound, wanting a drink and a snack (5,5)
18
Unopened body of work describing he who went to Hell and back? (7)
19
Second time for drive in Trudeau's land: it's a pastime (7)
21
Regularly pulling at bone (4)
22
Goddess brought about emphatic agreement in Mexico (4)