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Sorry, meant 6 of 26 and 5 of 24.

I was in the same position as you, teenileeks - then looked again at 2 down - I wasn't too happy with my first answer, and rightly so. It is one of the '24' ones.

Could you have made the same error?

I think I got there - thanks to both ....

Well, I've finished it, but I only have four 24/9's and five 26/15's (despite what I wrote earlier) ... or it may be the other way around! My understanding is that you HAVE to change X to Y (or vice versa) to fit the answer into the grid to agree with previous answers, such that the resulting new word is a valid word. And I am still three words short. Apart from changing some X's or Y's to make the total correct (and I see no reason to do that unnecessarily), there seems little else I can do.

No, I can make a further three "pointless" changes, so I shall do that.

Think I'm finished, not convinced of my parsing for the first part of 23A and I have five crossing 24/9's and four crossing 26/15's before changing the unchecked ones.

I had doubts about 23 ac. at first.

But (I think) it's a word for clergyman (to armies, colleges etc) with the part meaning tea moved (shifts)... then books.

Your question prompted me to find the parsing which I previously hadn't seen - you take a word for tea from a word for clergyman

(responses crossed) the word for tea goes after rather than before ....

actually I think the word for tea doesn't come in to play - you just shift the word for clergyman!