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Thanks chrisE, I'll check 12.

14d. Where in Massachusetts engine driver needs stronger drink?
SALEM

2d. Smoke rings in rock
CHEROOT

2a. Drawing room?
ATELIER

18d. Result once of the functioning of the Dartmoor sewers
MAILBAG

Parses for the above please.

14d replace TEA in S(TEA)M with ALE

2d two Os in CHERT, a type of sedimentary rock

2a a play on the double meaning of drawing, as in of an artist, and drawing room as in salon

18d a play on the double meaning of sewers, people who sew and drains

Cheers Quisling,
For 18d, I still don't get it - what's the connection of "Dartmoor" to MAILBAG?

Inmates of Dartmoor Prison at Princetown on the moor were given the task of sewing mailbags.

Ah understood now, Dartmoor Prison, thanks ChrisE.

17a. Chain Japanese dog in filthy place - it's odd that
STRANGE TO SAY

14a. Rashid once put in list
ROSETTA

Parses for the above please.

17 STY (filthy place) around RANGE (chain of mountains) and TOSA (Japanese dog breed)

14 Google tells me that the town of ROSETTA (where the stone was found) was also called RASHID. I didn't know that!
I don't know that the Rosetta Stone is a list, though

SET (put) in ROTA (list) perhaps