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Absolute stinker today, but most enjoyable. Should have done 100 things in the garden!

Thanks to the recent inputs on the top rh corner. But still not sure about 2:

1a Mock turtle soup for example S-O-F, spoof, scoff?

8d Contemptible, knocking the top off hourglass CURVY? Without the S for SCURVY? Don't like this clue!

Scoff - to mock and also foodstuff (slang)

yes
(S)Curvy

Scurvy

adjectivearchaic
1.
worthless or contemptible.
"that was a scurvy trick"

Thanks, Mamya! Really ought to know more slang! Still don't get "dash it" in 14a, the answer to which is race relations.

Dash _ Race
It - Relations - It = Sex act.

Thanks again, Mamya, this was a very strange clue, too clever for me! Did not realise what "IT" meant!!!!

Monty.