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The 18a clue has me stumped although the crossers make the answer pretty obvious, Any hints on the parsing please?

And I would not have thought that "extremely" was an appropriate definition for 26a. Have I completely misinterpreted the clue?

18: the 3 is "Harry" and the 4 "revolted", defn. "flower". "Offering" looks a bit strange, presumably to smooth surface.

The first word is a synonym for Harry and the second for revolted. ‘By’ as in next to, so the order is reversed.
“Extremely?” is definition by example.

18a first word a synonym of harry; second means revolted.

26a it's an example of the answer

20a and 26a my favourites

19d is my LOI, still struggling despite having all the crossers....
Will doubtless shortly kick myself!

Gosh - will have to learn to type faster to contribute to this site: two of you beat me to it!

… I should have said a synonym for “harry”, the capitalisation is simply to deceive. I think it’s better to put harry at the beginning of the clue to as to mislead with the capital H

I've never heard of the presumable answer to 4D, so had to look it up to see if it existed. (It does.) I'm still not sure how the clue works.

4 is an anagram, though the fodder is rather deviously strewn around the clue. :-)

Likewise, did not know the flower referred to in 18A, so had to look up flowers beginning with the 3-letter word.

Ah, sure enough there was one that fit (that I had never heard of before).

4d, that is.