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There are two clues whose answers are connected.

A Down clue: Calm pronouncement of man on board (5)

I think the answer could be PEACE or PIECE.

The third letter (i.e. A or E) is the second letter of the Across clue, as so:

Confederate south to north, perhaps (7)

And the answer should be as follows:

_(A or E)_T_E_

I think the answer could be PARTNER, but I cannot work out how that matches the clue.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

I think Partner is correct. Confederate also means southerner in the US. So south in respect of north implies this. See link
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/confederate

and in a game of Bridge, South is North's partner

Much better parsing than mine jazzgirl !

Thanks, jazzgirl. That clears up the mystery (at least, for me). (And I must remember the word "parsing", which I was looking for, but couldn't quite get it.)

Which reminds me of a guy who went into the hospital to ask for a castration. After the operation, the doctor told him that while he was at it, he did a circumcision on him, to which the guy excitedly said, "That was the word I was looking for when I came into the hospital."

No skin off his nose then!