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Help needed, please, with last two.......... I've struggled in vain for long enough........
4D: Much -loved tree, hollowed in the centre (6)
P???A?
14A: Spooner's sweltering Eastern European cave (7)
??T?O?E
(the third letter of 4D is the first letter of 14A)

14 POTHOLE

pothole..

......and thus POPuLAR

14. pothole (hot pole).

Thanks very much all of you - you've put an end to my misery!