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Hi Cosmo,

25a - It's how a person speaking with a lisp might say how they "escorted (somebody) to the door" - definition is "warm" as a verb

I am the only one who spent an age trying to construct an anagram from Bali !

Hi Jono, amazingly I actually saw the wordplay here, possibly prompted by me missing a hidden in the IQ despite having the answer and staring at it for over an hour!!

Many thanks

Took a while. 20d was a neat clue. LOI 25a. Actually is quite clever took an absolute age to get it.

No, I did too, Jono - in fact I still don't get it!

For 25 see clarkgwent@9

Thanks, Neville, I’m glad I’m not alone! If you read Brendan’s reply to me he mentions the device intended in the clue

Thanks Jono, I had 6d wrong which fooled me, all done now

Re 10a - an island in Spain is also in this clue, which is what I put initially, before realising it didn't make sense!

Enjoyable crossword. Nice to spot the alliterations, which greatly helped with the getting of 26a. LOI 25a, and it took longer than it should have done to parse the second word of 17a.