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6d is quite fun, you need to think of a word for wife-swappers then replace two consecutive letters which stand for a women’s group with one half of ‘pose’.

Jono. Surely 19 ac is a 4 letter word for "arrived" minus C for company, which is dubious.as an abbreviation IMO.

Re my earlier post I misparsed 19ac. I should have said that "arrived" is the wrong part of speech for jono's explanation to work.

patgreg re 4 dn I agree with your parsing but the answer is again the wrong part of speech for "to make changes".

I see now that the definition in 4 dn is "changes" so again I correct myself.
But I can't see why 10 ac is such a great clue. "Opposite of T-bone" doesn't tell me to drop the letter T.

Hi quocunque,
For 19a think of the speech as e.g. “he has arrived” … “he has ????”. The abbreviation for company is two letters.

Read T-bone as “T minus bonus” then reverse for “bone minus T”.

Hi Quocunque,

10a - I chose this as my joint COD because of its clever use of disguising the fact that you need to deduct a T from a bone, as in 'bone - T', by the use of "opposite" followed by a popular cut off steak ie T-bone.

Sorry Jono, I see you answered this about 15 hours ago.

Honestly, I take so long to write some of my posts with constant tinkering that's it's a wonder they even appear on the same day as the question they're answering!

Last clue solved 10a. Took me half an hour to get the parsing of "opposite of". Fair enough.

Thanks all for your explanations. When you see them you realise that, while tough, this is a good crossword. I don't mind slightly contrived, off the wall, parsing if the crossers give you a bit of a helping hand up front.