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14a. To hit - heavy or light (4) **G*
18a. Was bouncer messaged about bad atmosphere ? (4-6)
**R* - P*N*E*
1d. Sheet anchor ? (5 , 4) P*P** **** PAPER CLIP ?
16d Once you declare “I love you” by text , it’s 11 12 ! (3,6)
Y*A *E*I*Y

14a Lamp
18a pingponged
1d yes
16d yea verily

You appear to have the wrong city for 2 Down

Have you spelt TIANANMEN correctly?

Thank you both. Did put a wrong letter in 2d and the problems it caused ! Yea verily. Take care all.

Sorry for being dense but how does "was bouncer" =pingponged which I assume is pinged around pong and how does "yea verily" work please.
As usual not only do I fail to solve a Dean Mayer but I can't even work out the answers!

16 Ye = Once you
Aver - declare
ILY, I love you in a text (message)

I don't know what the 11, 12 means, sorry!

18 Ping-ponged, was bouncer, bounced, backwards and forwards.

Pinged = messaged (text speak, mobile phones etc)
Ping, bad atmosphere.

Thanks for that "ILY" unknown to me I'm afraid. Please put me out of my misery and explain 25a "Before cooking one, go for a pizza topping" Pepperoni & 13d "Run off opening businesses -very good area for wealth" Cornucopia. (I gave up on the whole thing and went tohttps://www.wordplays.com/crossword-solver/)

Glad I could help. ILY has been around for ever, decades - we put it on the back of Valentine's cards!

25 Pep= go
Per - for, per head say.
On - cooking
I - one.

13. Run off = anagram 'run' so 'rnu' , Businesses = Co, company and Co, company. Pi = very good, pious, holy (loved in crosswords, it appears regularly) +A, areas.

Co rnu Co PI a.