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Thanks Ixion. Your answer re 14 makes 2d interesting because I can't find a 19 22 that will fit. I also had 17d as a place name (after 19 22).

Have spent too much time on this already and jobs await

14A first word defined by "cheer up", 2nd word birds of a certain sort, collectively.

Hard to say much about the 19,22 but it seems to fairly standard.

No, no. I have 14 and 19 22. My problem is the intersection of 2 and 14. I can change the first part of 14 to fit 2 unchanged) although it makes the whole of 14 a bit of a nonsense, but I can't find a changed word for 2 that would fit with 14 (unchanged), if that makes sense. Also, the only changed word I can find for 17 is the name of a place in France.

2dn changed is a musical instrument and 17dn changed is not a place. A hint for 16dn please?

p.s. I have all the checked but so far unchanged letters.

I think (but this is the blind leading the myopic) that the original word is an old black and white tv show starring james garner and the replacement is a word for cloth - so you change letters 3,7 and 8. Pretty sure I have the second word of 14 but stuck on the first and have no clue (!) about 3,4,6,8,15 or 21 - so far I have only 5 changers so most of those presumably need to adapt

If you google 19,22 emulator the first result is the system I used for the potential changers.

Got it now, new word on me. Only one to go.

Thanks prospero, had just realised novercal (stepmother apparently) did not turn into what was needed.

Finished! One good turn deserves another. 6ac, non-changing, think female PM of Pakistan, losing husband, gaining note.