Possible Clues:

• How one got out of the duel with the editor
• Due to get led around, but got away with it
• There's a duel to be avoided over the 28 across, in short
• Got away with it?
• Have a duel over the editor? One might have got away with it
• Dodged, avoided
• How one managed not ot have a duel with the editor
• Of this one might have made a dud eel and got away with it
• How one got out of having a duel with 9 across, in short
• Escaped by stratagem