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Would be most grateful for help with the following (may be definitional misprints or letters not clued):

18 a) Retired pensioner owns much-used antique dagger (7)
Have --I-TNO but am guessing the T is wrong. N could also be wrong.

22d) Exposed post-natal struggles with uncertainly relayed judgement (7, 2 words)

Have ATA-O-S but I'm assuming there's a mistake somewhere.

Many thanks in advance.

22, A tatons fits?

Thank you so much, Rusty. Had never heard of that old French phrase. Knew it parsed, but thought it was wrong!

Looks good to me Rusty

(p)ost nata(l) anag
exposed= having no outer shell

18 Poinado, an old dagger. I won't parse it as there are affected letters!

Yes thanks, Rusty. The problem is 32 ac now looks wrong.

32 ac) Be aware of NZ bird being eaten by one in Hamilton (7)
Now have ACTUI --

-- No such word. Had INTUITS when I had the first letter wrong, but no such bliss now I've got it right.

Thank you so much, Malone. That's very kind of you. Getting tired, but nearly there so want to keep going into the final corner (and tie up a couple of loose ends elsewhere).

Glad I could help, jazzlover42.

The C in your 32 A is wrong. There's a 'not provided by wordplay' letter in the entry.

Thanks so much again, Malone.

You're welcome, jazzlover - it's good to be able to give a nudge here and there!