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Seven numbered clues, answers all (ahem!) begin with “X” and are linked by a final clue. A plural not specified in Chambers 11th Ed is used in the wordplay of one clue (source:Wiktionary).



1.Somerset fielded a team playing with spunk, that's just not cricket!(7)

2.Philip paying lip service, he's famously diplomatic(9)

3.Fallen idol ...“it's neat to make a comeback immediately”(6)

4.Common Wimbledon complaint? Wombles in the net, remove them discretely before returning(6,5)

5.Nagging wife to beat sausage loving puppet, according to Spooner(8)

6.Battle heartless one's crafty schemes(10)

7.Intolerance of religious school caught using drugs to frame an old fairy(10)



One might prefer a partnership with a pulse over clumsy inexperience to indicate what's needed to finish six, the last ones are tricky(7)

7 - Xenophobia?

5- Xanthippe?

Correct AB...

7.[Intolerance] [of religious school caught] using drugs to frame an old fairy(10)

xen(zen)
the drugs are "opia" rare plural of opium
old(folklore)fairy=hob

tennis elbow?

Correct again AB...

5.[Nagging wife] to beat sausage loving puppet, according to Spooner(8)

xantippe pronounced zan-tippy, hence tan-zippy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zippy_(Rainbow)

Got tennis elbow right off but that darned AB beat me.

...and again AB...

4.[Common Wimbledon complaint?] Wo(m)bles in (the) net, remove them discretely before returning(6,5)

ten[eht]nis elb[m]ow

Belated well done to Aristo also...ten=X of course.

Very long shot indeed- Xolotl- Aztec (?) god of death - an idol of the fallen? Can't parse.