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Ok, I've seen the parsing of the other. I was being too complicated!

Hi Roof, for 6d your crossers are correct and it is an anagram.

For 11a you need 2 playing cards, one of which is a knave, and they both share one letter - and this goes inside 'his', with the definition being 'hostile takeover' (in the air).

19d, The relative is female.

26a, Your "F" is wrong.

Hi again Roof, for 18d you want a star 'sign' around a 2 letter word for 'journey' and the usual abbreviation for 'south'.

19d is a 3 letter word for 'knowing' around a 4 letter word for, as Rusty said, a female 'relative'.

26a as Rusty says, your F is wrong and it's a 6 letter word in the clue minus the "h" + I + the odd letters of 'easy'.

Well done, Roof!

Well Brendan kept me well occupied this weekend. I managed to finish it finally, although not without "cheating" as my husband would say, or "using my resources" (this forum) as I prefer to call it! Thanks all.

It was enjoyable though I have a couple of reservations:
Is 26 d an actual word? I couldn't find it. Similarly 1 d. seemed a bit contrived.
Also 26 a is too colloquial for my taste - but then I am 195 next birthday.
Perhaps someone will give me a more up to date dictionary then.

For 1 down, One is posted during watch, for instance, as helmsman, I have ???O?E?R and am trying to find an accepted word -- not just the name of a game -- that would extend a 5- letter word for helmsman by -eer and would have a 4-letter word for watch closely using the 1st letter and the -eer. Any support for this? And how does Posted fit in?

Testing with adding a new post.
"Latest Posts" shows a post from ethereal @ 00:55 which isn't there when the thread is opened.

Posted = placed

One inside a 5 letter word meaning watch.