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26d. Spy with nothing to lose climbing tree (3)

Ewe or eye ?

Apologies. Not concentrating.... Need a coffee ,

Elm - m(O)le

Hi vrk
Yes that confirms elm. Had made error in 28a. Now have kempt. All done now.

@ChrisE - no wonder there's confusion about the term:

verb [no obj.] (often as adj. palpitating) (of the heart) beat rapidly, strongly, or irregularly
• shake; tremble: she was palpitating with terror.
ORIGIN: from Latin palpitat- ‘patted,’ from the verb palpitare, frequentative of palpare ‘touch gently.’

Those doctors love their Latin.

Now, can anyone parse 1A
"drinks with gin" Long Island M? Iced Tea
- off the wall, I know.

& 11A "I don't accept" ?
being = GIN ?

Gin again? Maybe what the setter was into?

re 11A - never mind. I see it now.

1a Drinks served with gin - Lim(e) + IT (Vermouth)

one is in short supply


Limit - Ration

Thanks, Mamya.

Had no idea about IT as a vermouth. Not a word one would look up in Chambers. Always considered IT as "appeal", or "Information Technology", where I worked for many years.

!? Limeade or lime juice maybe, but "Lime" is defined as a fruit or tree in my dictionaries, not as a drink.

Rather weak clue, I think. However, most of the rest were great. Loads of stars.

Cheers.

'it' is short for ITalian and the drink used to be called :

gin and italian vermouth but it became shortened to a 'gin and it' as did gin and tonic become' G and T'.
this looks totally confusing but hope it helps with the parsing in the future.