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4d, "misses" are women.
Hence "bar maids".

20 anagram not
11 let - allow, bluff king hal a nickname for Henry VIII
O PRATE (go on) about E
4 cryptic definition?

6 Operate, work. O = love, Prate = go on about and E is Eastern, oriental.

11, Apparently Henry V111 was called Bluff King Hal.
So, allow = let, with Hal.

Okay thanks all for the replies.

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13a. Person seeking satisfaction with a second helping
DUELLER

26a. Forcefully close big contract
SLAM

5a. Took control of a lot of characters in the first eleven
HIJACKED

Parses for the above please.

A(b)CDE(fg)HIJK *

26 a reference to bridge - small and grand slams

a dueller (duellist?) has a second person helping