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Has anyone managed to get 25a? (“O, no! King’s scattered antelopes (7)”) I thought it might be an anagram of first few words, but short of an African king who sounds like a famous painter can’t imagine what would fit. Any hints?

It's just an anagram - another name for the hartebeest.

Looks like an anagram of "O, no king" to me.

kongoni ... anagram

On a style point, the clue would be better as "O, no! King scattered antelopes"

It's not entirely clear from Wiki whether it can be a plural, though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartebeest
I can give the link as kirky has given the answer.

I'd have to say that I prefer Azed's version, "O, no! King's scattered antelopes". The two possibilities are equally sound, but in the surface reading the present perfect tense ('has scattered') fits better with the exclamation than does the perfect tense ('scattered'). 'O, no! He's blasted it over the bar' is much more likely than 'O, no! He blasted it over the bar.'

The primary reference, Chambers, makes it clear that 'kongoni' is both the singular and the plural.

Not sure I agree about your other example, spoffy; either would seem equally likely to me!

I like clues to eliminate all unnecessary letters, hence my preference for "King".

It goes without saying that the singular would have made me feel cleverer. Similarly, there was a ...”barge’s stern” and while I did guess that the last letter was an ‘e’ not an ‘s’ I did wonder about setters etiquette in these matters. Alas my Chambers 20th Century Dictionary from 1983 when Channel 4 had begun Scrabble and I had just got an A in O-level English a year ahead of my class may not be current : ( RIP....and thx as always to all of you.

"Barge's stern" - ie the stern [tail] of 'barge' - indicates the letter 'e', but I do know a couple of crossword editors who prefer that clues don't include this type of construction because it is so often misconstrued.

Thx. That’s helped me finish the lot I think. But leaves me puzzled as to why 24d (“Flowering plant about lost in oblivion (6)”) & 31a (“Good time away from work, sure to go for pottery stuff (4)”) parse as they do. Couldn’t understand the oblivion bit, nor time away from work. Illumination would be welcome!