Independent 9,809 / Hob

Green maN + GaiwaN share the same first and last letters so they are, cryptically speaking, alike in terms of their “extremes”! As for the definition, both “very” and “jolly” are synonyms for “extremely”

E (=English) + DAVE (=TV channel); “reactionary” indicates reversal

U (=bend, in toilet) in TROT (=pace, between walking and running)

*(CHILDREN’S); “plays” is anagram indicator; the reference is to the 1993 US film Schindler’s List, in which Liam Neeson plays Oskar Schindler

L (=Latin) in COLIN’S (=Tom Hank’s son’s, who is a US actor and film-maker)

B (=born) + OBAN (=Scottish resort); “to the west” indicates reversal

P<laying> A<braham> L<incoln>; “heads for” means first letters only; in Cockney rhyming slang, a china plate is a mate, hence “pal”

Hidden (“of”) in “tiVER GEnerally”

*(EACH LIM<b>); “cut” means last letter dropped from anagram, indicated by “off”

BANG (=report, from gun) + homophone (“broadcast”) of “cock” (=male member, colloquially); Krung Thep is the Thai word for Bangkok

Cryptically, a Scottish version of King Arthur (of Round Table fame) might by MacArthur! The reference is to US general Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964), a leading military figure in the 1930s and 1940s, played by Liam Neeson in the 2016 South Korean film Operation Chromite

LANE (=passage) + R (=right); “back” indicates reversal

R<oy> (“lead” means first letter only) + <l>EAVE (=part, as verb; “not originally” means first letter dropped); to reave is an archaic word meaning to plunder, rob

ROCK (=sweet sticky stuff, from the seaside) + OPERA (=works, of e.g. music, plural of opus); the reference is to the 1969 album by the UK rock band The Who, mostly composed by Pete Townshend as a rock opera

Cryptically, “got (=put) one’s hands” on is “felt (something)”

ST (=street) + homophone (“reciting”) of “role” (=part)

*(A HAT BEFORE); “sporting” is anagram indicator

MY (=HOB’S, i.e. the setter) + <e>THICAL (=right, moral; “drug-free” means letter E (=ecstasy) is dropped)

VAL (LAV=ladies, i.e. toilet; “backed” indicates reversal) in (JEAN + JEAN (=”wearing denim”)); the character was played by Liam Neeson in the 1998 film Les Misérables)

BALLS (=MP once, i.e. Ed Balls, former MP for Normanton) + I.E. (=that is) + R (=right)

PEE (=to go, i.e. urinate) + R (=runs, in cricket); fellow, used adjectivally, indicates one’s peer or equal, as in my fellow countrymen

Hidden (“have this internally”) in “aliVE NO Might”; & lit.

LIVI<d> (=furious; “when briefed (=shortened)” indicates that last letter is dropped) + N (=new) + GROOM (=union member, with “union” meaning marriage)

S (=small, of sizes) + PEAK (=top, of mountain)

BACK (=support, as verb) + CHAT (=jaw, jabber)

PLIC (CLIP=cut; “up” indicates vertical reversal) + HARD (=tough)

R (=recipe, from the Latin for take) in BOSCH (=artist, i.e. Hieronymus Bosch)

KIN (=relatives) + SEY (YES=agreed; “about” indicates reversal); the reference is to the 2004 US film Kinsey about the life of sexologist Alfred Charles Kinsey, played by Liam Neeson

Double definition: a mark is a sign, indication of something, while the Gospel According to Mark is a book of the New Testament

DEER (=does, i.e. female deer); “climb” indicates vertical reversal

*(ONE MALE’S IN); “different” is anagram indicator; many of the clues and solutions refer to many of Liam Neeson’s film roles