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26 T (tango) HE (fellow), with TERMINATOR just meaning someone who closes. Poor clue!

22 every other letter of tUrNs HeAd To

25 A (area) in LEFT (abandoned), then RACE (people). Don't know what it means, though!

Google tells me that a LEAF TRACE is a bundle of fibres going towards a leaf.

Thanks for this, I had to look up "leaf trace" (plant anatomy)

18a. Bush to refuse to accept letter from old England
BLACKTHORN

9a. Understanding directions for pen strokes to draw F on its side?
SENSE

26a. In this year one receives no capital
HANOI

Parses for the above please

18 BLACK, short for blackball, is "refuse to accept". THORN is an old letter that looked a bit like a Y, but actually was TH (as in "Ye Olde Cake Shoppe")

Interesting chrise, does that mean 'Ye Olde Cake Shoppe' is actually pronounced 'THe Olde Cake Shoppe'?

Yes indeed! But not many of the "Ye Oldes" understand that.

The stuff you learn, cheers.

9. Is an instruction. Take a pencil and trace S E N S E and you get an “F” on its side!

26. HA is Latin Hoc Anno “in this year” + I +NO