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Just stuck on last 3 - can anyone help please?

18d (6) Power governs tube centrally - New York tube, that is --b---
27a (7) She's a great first-class student
--I-A-L
18a (5) It may be hard to catch winter sportsman --i-r (I'm sure it's skier but can't see how that relates to beginning of clue!)

27ac Abigail

A ball hit in the air, skywards, is known as a skier.

skier is a difficult catch in cricket

Subway

Thanks all

i don't doubt that skier is the correct answer but is it even a word,

i don't doubt that skier is the correct answer
but is it even a word, as pertaining to a ball that in the sky and difficult to catch

Chambers thinks it is "Skier - a hit high into the air"

Correct, TJ, listed under "sky".