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Hi Luko,
15d definition is draw. A French painter with three letters representing ‘gallons with energy’ inside

Apologies, that’s wrong, I had it wrong yesterday. In fact it is a French painter (a different one) but with one letter for gallons inside, then IS from the clue and one letter for energy

Luko, got it in a second with your clarification thank you! Fair clueing, I did not even think of that meaning. Just a couple of crossers left now.

Always late to the party, 3 days in and still struggling, gentle hints welcome, have got 8 down but hints in other long ones welcome, that might get me going.

Obviously I'm not on wavelength this week

Gosh that is late to the party dazymay. If there are any in particular you'd like a hint on, over and above those already in this thread, let me know.

The long ones:

26 is fairly easy: defn "suitable for gardening leave", parses as 5 ("party member"), 8 ("blamed for crime").

1 not too bad: defn. "fixture", parses as 4 ("pay"), 2 ("graduate"), 2 "fifty quid", 5 ("light").

8 is a difficult anagram of the first 3 words in clue ("reforms"), defn. "old-fashioned still".

9 is also difficult. Defn. "wrong", parses as 2 ("about") followed by [an uncommon 10-letter word for "gripping" with a B ("book") inserted].