Possible Clues:

• The editor returns with me and a couple of artists to make it all sweet and dark (8)
• Cocktail of rare mead, rum and sugar
• Guyanan river where most of 26 is produced
• An unusual sea seen on westward trip? That's sweet!
• Knock back a Red Sea of rum
• Crystalline type of brown sugar
• American sugar is expensive outside Maine river area
• Source of sweetness to excite a dreamer
• Rum and mead, rare mixture
• A dreamer can be really sweet!