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12A QC's junior was in retreat (5) ?E?I?
14D Nick promised to get around for whisky (5) ?C?R?
24A Plant juice seen in recent times (5) ?A?E?
26 Monarch filling in cross or nought (4) ?E?O - could be ZERO but I can't see why

Thanks

24 Latex

26 cross = zo, monarch = ER.

zo = "a kind of hybrid domestic cattle found in parts of the Himalayas, said to be a cross between the male yak and the common horned cow"

26 monarch is er, zo is a cross (animal)

12 devil, reverse of lived & devil a junior barrister