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Quite a common crossword fish!

Thanks, Chrise. How embarrassing ...

And that's the thing completed, phew!

I am stuck on my last one - 6D Lion in for horse
I have *e*o*n ... I'm not even sure I can make any sense of the clue :(

Def. is 'horse', but not the 4 legged kind. A slang word for something else.

Thanks mattrom - got it now. Never heard of that word for the answer, of course - but now I know

Quite old slang, referred to in the title of an earl Len Deighton book, "Horse under water"

I'm sitting in our holiday cottage in wet Wales doing the crossword, but without my usual aids. I was really motoring until the last few. Thank you to forum members for 14ac and 6d. But I still have three left.
18d Shark identified fox (8) I have C???O?N?
22ac Right in bear, a little hair (6) I have S?R???
Lastly, 8d Weather is embraced by spider, perhaps (6).
I have R?S?S?. I can only think of one word that fits, but can't see why.
Hints only please

18 Fox is a verb
22 So is bear
8 So is weather!

8d is an unusual use of "spider" - you may have seen it on TV perhaps?

Many thanks Chrise and Rossim
I now understand why my word that fitted 8d is correct. I've also got 18d. I need to think a bit more about 22ac.