Across
One's embarrassed to involve woman in smear (7)
Eccentric involved in defending battleships (7)
Verification is essential to clause ceding title (5)
Abandoned area separating two sets of players (4,5)
Red hot tape turned out to be highly informative porn! (4,6)
City that can be stimulating after six (4)
26a
Worry about being disturbed as taxi lets gent in (11,5)
Stone passage reportedly found in Europe (7,4)
Nettle or grass? (4)
Record film music first (10)
Baseball player's casual clothing combination (9)
See 14
Against the rules to have one buried in the neighbourhood (3,4)
Close and terribly hot around where we live (2,5)
Down
Strong drink makes bishop up for it (6)
Abandoned by commandos, comes back to life perhaps (6)
Goes drinking and nearly scores (4,3,3)
Remove dry pieces from red curry — they can repeat (5)
French philosopher who thought SS created mayhem (9)
Animal conservationist starting national organisation against hunting … (4)
… introduces British group with pride, perhaps (6,2)
Weird one tucked into end bits found on little piggies? (8)
Unwilling republican intervenes between countries (10)
It shows popular autocrat taking first time off (9)
Poet composed sonnet about New York (8)
In the end, brings together seat majority (8)
Voltaire, ridiculing error, gutted church official (6)
It helps to heal and keeps you from running (6)
Criticism of missing copy (5)
It blows up in Estonia occasionally (4)
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