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Actually the post enlightenment idea was Buddy earlier on in this thread, to give full credit.

Rickye - nearly right, but change the first letter.

Thank you Loge and Rickye

Thanks loge. So an s which would make sense if it wasn’t there.

Not s either. Think of a typical synonym for radical as the shell.

Hi all, late to the party, but have got myself nearly to the end, and been scuppered by 26d (now worrying I have one of the intersecting clues incorrect as I took a bit of a punt on the include entry which this far has worked on ok...)

Hints greatly appreciated!

26d... first word is the definition. Then an anagram containing ‘rook in the centre’... not the usual R but literally the centre of rook

Thanks to ginge (post 8) for help parsing 11; this was driving me bonkers!
My final problem is 7 which does not seemed to have bothered many people. I have letters 2, 3, 5 and 6. I'd like the first letter to be F, but I'm damned if I can parse it! Please put me out of my misery, someone.

Jif73. You need a word meaning ran (as in legged it) around (rings) O and S. Outwitted is the definition. Your F is correct

You’re right. 4 letter word for ran with a ring and the last letter of cops inside.

Thanks, mathprofrockstar and merenz.

Note to self: beware the hackneyed phrase such as "Ran rings round". I oscillated between this and "outwitted" as the defn. Add my indecision over whether "cops" meant "police", was a container indicator or "cops, finally" led to S, and quite a few synapses were fried trying to work through all the permutations...

I'm glad that I kept plugging away at this one as the endgame was a real tour de force. Hats off to Twin.