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26 Averaging, getting mean/average/median/arithmetic stuff.. Aver, claim, agin, against and G, government leader/first letter.

20 Lo, see and Gnom(e), saw, proverb, saying(almost - remove the last letter). Upset = reverse, upwards,. Mongol, Asian.

22 A double definition thingy. Crack/great and parts of a dart.


12. Them, unnamed people inside On End - but the latter doesn't really match 'Continuously', I feel!

9a. Mixed bag in the post - sale offer?
JOB LOT

23a. Relaxed face's enigmatic expression
LAID-BACK

2d. Amphibian in a bunch salmon rises to swallow
AXOLOTL

Parses for the above please.

2d. A, then an envelope of LOX (salmon) rising (reversed in a down clue) around LOT (bunch)

9 job is post (work) and lot is item in an auction sale
23 laid is dial (face) backwards, but i don't see how enigmatic fits in
2 lot (bunch) in lox a backwards - lox is brined salmon

I think ‘enigmatic expression’ here means expressed cryptically. So ‘laid back’ could be a clue for face.

8d. Runner on island
LEGMAN
21d. Jazz pianist playing after note on horn
MORTON
1a. The stage at which one approaches the house
APRON

Parses?

8 Leg = On, a cricket term, much used in crosswords. Man, isle of/Island. Legman - runner.

21d. Morton (Jelly Roll of course). Playing is ON after MORT something played on a horn during a hunt to indicate a kill has been made