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I'm surprised how little trouble most of you have had with this though it WAS very satisfying to me when a non-word worked out. I still have one of those left unsolved and one other.
26ac. Carpets Sunday school installs without warning.
I've got s*OLD* for the real word with NEW replacing OLD on the grid.
Then 2d. Hug lovelorn idiot in close. L*f*e* I'm baffled.

'without warning' - think of a type of phone call.
your L should have been converted to the other letter.

btw - i had a lot of trouble with this, nearly gave up.
re 2d remember to count how many 'oddball' ones you have left.

Well I see how I failed to deal with the switch in the cross clue in 2d. Thanks for that, Trevor. Still can't figure out why the L should be switched if the O and D aren't. And please, carpets in what sense?

carpets as in, reprimands.

ps. all 3 letters are changed, the resulting word is a Non-Word.

Now I think I see that 26ac is not a non-word at all and can see a sense of carpets as one would rose petals along the aisle. But still don't see how the 4 letters between the S's mean without warning. Maybe it's a British abbreviation for this type of telephone call...

Sorry I'm wrong about 26ac. Got to be N or O, no R.

i'm confused as to what you now need.
i think my 'telephone call' clue might be a bit British (not sure)
the word can also mean - completely; entirely.