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19a. Train with compass after midnight
GROOM

26a. Plan of athlete to replace leader in race
BLUEPRINT

Parses for the above please.

19 mid niGht is G, then ROOM is compass

No idea on 26, though a BLUE is an athlete at Oxford or Cambridge?

19 Mid niGht = G, compass = room
26 Blue = athlete (at Oxford or Cambridge) + (s)print

Thanks for the help

13a. Assign officer to go round in ab recent case
ALLOCATE

9a. Drummer, one of a group on the road
TRAVELLER

5a. It's heartily welcome round a town like Harrogate
BUS PASS

2d. I'm for cutting in after initial number
SCALPEL

Parses for the above please.

9. Chambers defines drummer as ‘a commercial traveller’, so a double definition

2. A cryptic definition, with ‘number’ as in anaesthetic

13. Probably CO for officer reversed, but I don’t see the rest

13. Alate (an archaic form of lately, recently) round Col. reversed

5. Harrogate is a spa town, so BUSS (a kiss) round SPA and an &lit-ish definition

Still confused about the 5a/Harrogate clue.... where's the definition?