Help Please

[ewtor2]

I give in - would love some help please! Stuck on:

8d Earl leads girl to a flashy pad I have e-e---t-e
18d Way to gag bird. s-r---h
25a Poet, left say, during robbery in Bow e---i--

Many thanks

[gangesboy]

8 epaulette
18 stretch
26 elegist

[ewtor2]

Many thanks gangesboy. Thought it might be stretch, though not sure why. Can see epaulette is right, but that means I have 10a, Softly trace around a copy, wrong. I have reprise, which gives me an e instead of a

[gangesboy]

bird = prison - a stretch in prison
Replica

[gangesboy]

sorry meant to parse - relic (trace) + P (softly) + a