Cryptic #33 - by Symptomatic

NB: every clue's wordplay ignores exactly one letter. There is a pattern which will become clear
as you solve the puzzle.

Across 1 2 3 4 5 6

7 Earth at twilight 7 8
(5)
8 Deadly acid
9 10
spilled in
reversing car (9) 11

9 Hot colour to 12 13 14
cover black
edging (5)
10 See broke, 15 16
ragged person
17 18 19
lacking income
(3,6) 20 21

12 Enact auditor's
excellent vision
(8) 22 23 24

13 Burn bed? (6)

15 Done building 25 26
theatre (5)
16 Vulgar people,
like Britain's
outsiders (5)
20 Nice one - first 6 How one might 19 Cockney man to
person blocked Down describe a travel by city in
from dry, 1 Brought attention diamond card: Spain (7)
receding to dermal oddly trendy (7)
23 Raw element
wasteland (6) treatment (7) 11 One nearby decayed (4)
21 Too much duty 2 A hardened rookie lost heart,
during study criminal, squandered
retreat (8) unarmed (10) energy (11)
22 One set of 3 Crown old singer 14 Palladium maybe
partners to offer from below (7) had trouble firing
an opinion (9) PR? Dead right
4 Rejected (5,5)
24 Zero cutback to footballer, with
non-greenhouse jewellery, posing 17 I heard you felt
gas (5) (11) sick and retreated
(7)
25 Money dreams 5 Anger an entire
(9) country (4) 18 Guinea getting
aggressive,
26 Height of a
causing
reverse shot hit
destruction in
over the
Scotland? (7)
boundary (1-4)

Symptomatic