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Change final sentence to end with a full stop (5)

Playground feature has a southern buffalo, perhaps (5)

Jazz reducing tempo - look out ! (5)

Fictional haystack burner from Cornish meadow (5)

What bowler aims for ? Some wickets ; it's never good for openers (5)

What's the most clues that have needed parsing ? I'm already stumped by kt's 14 and Hannah's 11.......

Sorry Malcolm - that was a little occluded.

Swing was - according to Chambers a fictional 'Captain' used as the figurehead of a (Luddite?) group of 'rick-burners' who made threats against operators of threshing mills in 1830's.

Cornish = SW

Meadow = ING

Twickers' chariot might do this, in part (5)

Double definition . .

"change" = swing

to swing (slang) = to be hanged = "final sentence"

"to end with a full stop" = perhaps a rather grisly elaboration on that "final sentence"

Icarus, emulating birds, sees wax melt, leaving broken wings, unable to flap. (5)

A waxwing is a type of bird.