Eye Crossword N0 754

[Matakari]

Good morning, some help with the following would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance!

1d About to break doddery old president (twice)
: it's the law, jokingly (2,4) ?C?L??
5d Feeling popular court upholds fools (8) : ?I???N?T
19d Conference venue sexual partner rolled up with a brief 18 (5): Y?L??

[Captain2]

5d In-stin-ct

[Captain2]

1d PC Plod

[drmorgans]

PC Plod
Instinct
Yalta

8a is Someone

[Captain2]

19d what's the answer to 18?

[Neveracrossword]

Captain2... 18 was Thanks.

[reinotsyor]

19d YALTA

[Matakari]

Many thanks, drmorgans, Captain2 ! I had an idea for instinct ( feeling?) and yalta but could not parse them.

Hints for the following should enlighten me for the last few:

11a Sunak's first to abandon explosive study – respect! (4): D?T? ( DUTY )
12a Pootle as Cyclops would, leading 'The Mexican U-turn' (4): ?D?E
20a Pope's terrible housing bother (4): P?S? (PEST inside the clue )?
25a Convenience of election-deniers assertions about a Dem: ?A?I?S

And I’m trying to parse this one, but unsuccessfully.( Links to Ginsburg and Fox News ? ) -
TRUTHFULLY?
7 a 'Time to join Ginsburg' – altogether not how Fox News would have presented it? (10)
?R?T?F?LLY

[Neveracrossword]

Matakari, T, time, Ruth (Ginsburg, famous US lawyer) and Fully, altogether.

[JJ109]

25a Toilet
11a Yes (study - S(unak} then anagrammed
20a yes

[JJ109]

19a Is Cyclops the setter?

If yes T'd +le (El the in Mexican/spanish reversed = Idle (pootle}

[JJ109]

^^I'd

[drmorgans]

25a is Ladies, Lies + A D(emocrat) anagrammed

[Matakari]

Many thanks, all, for the superb parsing! Jj109, 25a does work out to be Ladies and not toilet.

[JJ109]

Matakari - Toilet was a "hint" that you requested!

[Neveracrossword]

Matakari, glad we could help. This puzzle took me twice as long as Doc's Spectator one!

[Matakari]

Yes, it was quite tricky in many ways! Any news of the arrival of this week's EV?

[Neveracrossword]

Thanks, Matakari. EV is a Sunday puzzle...

[Matakari]

Thanks, jj109 and NACW!