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7d. End of investment that helps the poor
RELIEF

26a. In the cold, where you might find chaps fashionable?
ON EVERYONE'S LIPS

8d. Worried about puddings
STRESSED

Parses for the above please.

26a cracked skin on your lips due to cold = chaps
fashionable = everyone is talking about it

8d. reverse of stressed = desserts (puddings)

7 I think refers to…
Investment - a military blockade
Relief - deliverance from siege

Thanks Jono and JG.

Thanks jono

and relief is given to the financially poor

1d. Dracula's personal servant
BATMAN

2d. Beset by troubles, I decay
CARIES

26a. Amphibian that appears to puff
TOAD

18d. Anger over a disease
CHOLERA

7a. Upright, so may share our secret
BEDPOST

Parses for the above please.

2 Cares, troubles, beset vy trouble I = put an I inside. Caries, decay (usually of teeth).

7 There's a saying, about secrets, Between you, me and the bedpost.

26 Ta Ad, to puff (to advertisement) Toad, amphibian.

Cheers Malone

18, "Choler" is an archaic word for anger or ill-humour, with "a" giving cholera, a disease.