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Peterm - If I'm correct the gap comes at "wa y"..

22ac still eludes me is R?????O?? the correct pattern?

Thanks ixion. My NE corner is completely blank so far. Your letters are right for 22ac. Am I right in thinking that 8dn is the name of a European city?

tonyw don't panic is also in hitchhikers but perhaps dad;s army is more correct as it was usually followed by the actor ( whose name escapes me now) running around panicking!

Ixion thanks for the support - however chapess would be more appropriate.

Still got no entries at all, still staring blindly at it without and idea where to start. ah well not bad thta this is the first one I have been completely stumped on and I started with the very first genius (a baptism of fire to learn how to do cryptics) and have worked on and completed most since.

My 8d is a city - am correct to have 22ac starting with the 2nd "f" of sheriff?

No, 22ac goes inside "pork".

19ac starts after pat

Thanks peterm - have a tentative answer for 13a but can't tie in the rook

13ac fits into "rook". It's not one of those with a letter change.

Thanks again...I had "stags hem bar goad a (b)east!

It makes as much dense as some of the other answers thrown up! If you haven't already, you should now be able to get 14dn, which is a bit easier to see.