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still on last Saturday's! last 2
30ac: "party beaten in court coming back, having heard surprisingly solid figures"(11) D-d-c---d-a
25d:"It's wrong to supportpub feeding evil old setter"(6) S???n?
Many thanks in advance
Bustard

Dodecahedra.

Sphinx.

thanks very much, Rusty-- but I still can't work out either of them! can you bear to explain to an old (well, middle-aged!) duffer?

Wrong = x, as in a wrong answer, evil is sin, with PH for public house. Sphinx.
The Sphinx strangled travellers who could not answer her riddles. So, Sphinx was the setter.

A party is a DO
Beaten in (tennis) court is ACED, coming back is DECA
Anagram od heard ("surprisingly") is HEDRA
Altogether gives DODECAHEDRA (= solid figures)

Wrong is X
Evil is SIN
Pub is PH on an Ordnance Survey map (Public House)
Put PH inside (= feeding) SIN with X to support gives SPHINX

wow! thanks both, and Happy New Year!