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24 S, Sabbath, Cat, music fan (jazz usually, I think) Scat, sort/kind of singing.

14 Budding, promising,likely to do well, with Read, study and P, quietly (musical direction, loved by setters) inside. B read P udding.

Cheers Malone, good work.

Whetstone, thanks. Those seemed pretty straightforwrd, not always the case!

8d. Born in chirpy milieu of East London
COCKNEY

14d. One could make strides with this drill possibly
TROUSERING

21a. All right to uncork wine?
OKAY

25a. Individually do something with no chance of success
DEAD DUCK

26d. Three Men In A Boat perhaps vaunted
CREW

Parses for the above please

21 Tokay is a wine, take off the top/first letter
26 Double definition, crew/crowed/boasted and the crew in Three Men In A Boat.

25 Individually ‘do’ (so one letter at a time) D = dead O = duck

8d ne (born) in cocky (chirpy) area of East London
Also clue is literally so

14. Trousering is material used in the making of trousers (strides, slang) and drill is a type of cloth. So nothing to do with the parade ground!

8d, Cockney.
Chirpy is cocky.
Collins Dictionary gives "ne" as American English meaning born.
Cockney is a form of speech in East End of London.