Is it a themed puzzle? Wicked works as the answer to the wordplay in the clue - Wick, town in north-east, and Ed being 'England vacated', take everything out of E nglan d.
A Happy New Year to all and to let me start the Hogmanay Crossword, I can't quite parse an answer to my last remaining clue.
86d For all to see, short judge in New York (6) ?n?u?y