MyCrossword Featured crossword No 8 by Temple

A(=first class) + trophy(=memorial)

Id(=papers) in event(=sports contest)

R{ight} after RADA(=famous drama school)

Opt(=choose) around(=cases) (encour[age])(=promote with age=time removed)

[S]tartin[g]< + e{arth}

Bathe(=to wash) around(=trousers) re(=about)

(Appear chill at)*

Don't get this

(Ra(=Egyptian sun god) + c[oming]) in(=breaches) mile(=distance)

(Are fusion)*

Ma(=mum) after gam(=a word for a school of whales). Gamma is the third letter of the Greek alphabet, so sometimes used to mean third best.

Tome<(=book) + (on(=about) after I(=one))

Extra(=additional) c[ommen]t

Rant(=go on, as in "go on at someone") after war(=struggle)

Direct*

App(=type of computer program) + roach(=type of fish)

Yz<(=ultimate two letters of the alphabet) + got(=received) + e{cstasy}(=drug). In biology, a zygote is a fertilised egg cell.

CD/DD. RE member(=one of the sappers i.e. member of the Royal Engineers)

DD

Real(actual) around(=pinching) butt(=bottom)

S{econd} + tutter(=someone tutting)

(A golfer)* around p{ower}

Pound(=division of a stone, as in 14 pounds make a stone) around for<

Rig(=doctor as a verb) in irate(=mad)

DD

(Plan yet)*

DD

[J]etsam<(=debris) + r{iver}

Comb(=search, as in "comb the area") + odd letters removed from [p]a[r]t[y]