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10a, first parts of speech in old radio broadcast.
r-o-d-a.
16a a small stake in Ascot goes wrong,he takes the blame.s-a-k-p-t, is it slackspot?.
25d house 500 bricks in it?.h-d, is it hod?.

exordia

scapegoat

and,yes, hod

Happy New Year

Thank you Dilly,struggling with the xword today but I think that I am winning!!.I would have never got the word EXORDIA.

gareth me neither, but i think 24a takes the bisquit.

that should read biscuit, somedays i wonder...

emf,yes 24a is really good. Gehenna, so many words took me ages, I think that the compiler is demented or simply mad.
Happy New Year to everybody.

6d) Error on table at home and on holiday I? O?F Looks like in off but can't fathom it out

Can someone please explain 12a) - A bishop commandeers my workplace for general, say I have army officer

in-home, off-holiday. The term is used in snooker hence the word table.11a, I have no idea where bishop fits in.

Very many thanks gareth - don't know the first thing about snooker so would never have worked that one out. Happy New Year.

a r my office r
rr = right reverend = bishop