Club Monthly 20188: World's First Triple Pangram?

.. and it's only 8 letters short of being a quadruple pangram. So, still something to aim for then :-)
I am not very good at spotting pangrams, ninas etc., but even I think a triple pangram is a milestone, a very impressive feat. Especially as the clues show no sign of strain or oddness that I can see, at least beyond what is normal for the Club Monthly! Overall, this crossword continues to operate at the very highest level. I don't think cryptics come any better than this.

cd = cryptic definition, dd = double definition, rev = reversed, anagrams are *(--), homophones indicated in ""

Dictionaries: The Club Monthly uses several dictionaries as sources, and why not? The main ones are the Concise Oxford Dictionary (COD), Collins, and Chambers. I use the online Oxford dictionary (ODO) and the full OED too


Across
1. Local roughly pulls insect, quietly advancing (4)
waps - WASP, with the P (quietly) moving up a tad
3. Literary family wrestling with clue about unknown twins (10)
Chuzzlewit - ZZ (unknown twins) in *(WITH CLUE). My first in, despite a cordial dislike of Dickens novels
10. Striking attire for ride (7)
outwear - OUT (striking) + WEAR (attire). Does outwear mean ride? Can't quite see it myself...
11. Odd habit mostly for Welshman to consume cocktail (7)
daquiri - QUIR(k) (odd habit mostly) in DAI (Welshman). To my eye the answer is missing an i, but Chambers says it's OK
12. Minor role of non-professionals one had rebuffed in month out of action? (15)
extrajudicially - EXTRA (minor role) + LAIC I'D (nonprofessionals one had) rev. in JULY (month)
13. Pipe that's often narrow (6)
squeak - just a dd I think, pipe as in pipe up
14. Male intended taking degree course for a little money (8)
fippence - FIANCE (male intended) with PPE (degree course) instead of the A. Very neat clue!
17. Instrument, eg, bulky to play and move finally (8)
keybugle - *(EG BULKY) + (mov)E
18. Leg armour touching buckled shields (6)
greave - RE (touching) in GAVE (buckled)
21. Stream film appeal backing European fish pickle plant (6,9)
burnet saxifrage - BURN (stream) + ET (film) + SA ((sex) appeal) + E GAR FIX (European fish pickle) rev. One of my secret fantasies is one day actually knowing something about plants... "Ah yes, a member of the family Umbelliferae, a native of the British Isles and temperate Europe and Western Asia. It is neither a Burnet, which its leaves resemble, nor a Saxifrage although it has a similar herbal effect as a diuretic..." etc. etc. to an admiring audience. Dream on. After nettles and cow parsley, it is all downhill for me
23. Group ducks out of toe-to-toe meeting with other contestants at first (7)
octette - O(ther) C(ontestants) + ToE To ToE, without the Os
24. Port's enticing East Bay oddly neglected (7)
niigata - even letters of eNtIcInG eAsT bAy. A Japanese port on Honshu, Japan's largest island. Sounds a nice place, especially if you like earthquakes
25. Herald family-run ranches? (4-2-4)
king-of-arms - KIN (family) GO (run) FARMS (ranches)
26. Letters heartless literary spirit returned (4)
edhs - SH(a)DE (heartless literary spirit) rev. Our old friend eth, spelt differently

Down
1. Speakers loudly interrupting solicitors (7)
woofers - F (loudly) in WOOERS (solicitors)
2. Stirred up jittery panel (5,4)
petit jury - *(UP JITTERY)
4. Asian island frequency not used in four MHz broadcast (6)
Hormuz - *(FOUR MHZ) .. without the F. Hormuz is a number of things.. a village, a port, a strait, and an island in the Persian Gulf
5. Religious people of note tease half blind revolutionary (8)
Zaddikim - all rev: MI (note, mi, a name I call myself..) KID (tease) + DAZ(zle) (half blind)
6. What could make you go crazy: 11 plain, grasping females (6,8)
liquid paraffin - FF (females) in *(DAQUIRI + PLAIN). Not too hard, once you have solved 11ac! Lots of useful hints in the Wikipedia article, such as "liquid paraffin should not be confused with the paraffin used as a fuel"
7. Women's greeting: each hand making quick turn (5)
whirl - W (women's) HI (greeting) RL (each hand, ie right & left)
8. Day without bicycle is regularly uphill struggle for Scot (7)
tuilyie - bIcYcLe Is, rev. in TUE (day). Strange argot, Scots..
9. Disputed issue of tax, with lover once in a blue moon hiding estimate (6,8)
vexata quaestio - I struggled with this rather. It is EX (lover once) in VAT (tax), + EST (estimate) in AQUA (blue) + IO (moon, of Jupiter). Io is said to be the driest known object in the Solar System
15. Old country's name retained by city when I was a boy (9)
Nyasaland - N(ame) in NY (city) + AS A LAD (when I was a boy). This clue reminded me of my juvenile philately, such a fine way of teaching a young person about their world
16. Original material from article the writer reversed, under severe criticism (8)
blastema - BLAST (severe criticism) + A (article) + ME (the writer) both rev.
17. In centre for trekking, English Auntie eating old Highland cheese (7)
kebbock - O (old) in E (English) + BBC (auntie), all in (tre)KK(ing). I think we've all eaten kebbock at some time or other, whether we realised it at the time or not...
19. Naked female in garden shocks local birds (7)
evejars - EVE (naked female in garden) + JARS (shocks). She was only naked to start with mind, if you believe the literal bible. And we are all naked under our figleaves, are we not?
20. Gracious refusal by Zebedee ultimately upset Florence, say (6)
exonym - all reversed: MY (gracious) + NO (refusal) + X (by) +(zebede)E. Exonyms are a fraught area of human relations. Firenze, Torino and München don't complain, but Pekin, Madras and Bombay are all over you, given half a chance... as if it really matters. Some call it Londres, but I don't treat it as an insult ;-)
22. Scrutinised contracts from both sides supplying drug (5)
rutin - ah, interesting clue.. I think the answer is (sc)RUTIN(ised).. daring, to contract one side more than the other! But completely fair, of course