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This is a complicated exercise. Just need to know if anyone can fathom out my last two. Both eight letters. Clue 12: Test to judge English cads nervously entered. Also Clue 18: Diving birds: canal men head off after cuttings couple's wings.

Judge - see + E - English +anagram of cads - seedcase? test is a hard outer covering?

Bargees are canal men , head off - argees + wings of te word copule - ce - cargeese? A cargoose is a kind of grebe,

18 Cargeese - (b)argees in c(oupl) e

Many thanks: should have known about bargees¬!