Crossbar Crossword --Scotland.

[galasalmon]

Can anyone help please .
1a/ Left games to meet up with cross- country winner ( 5, 5, )

? ? M ? ? / S ? ? ? ?

1D Refined place , perhaps, acting as an athletics venue ( 11 )

? ? A NG ? ? ? U ? ?

26A/ Some may concoct a verse starting with eight lines ( 6 )

? ? T ? ? ?

Thank you.

[Grimaldi]

26a octave