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7d. Kill hart and doe with clean shot away from the gaze of spectators
OFF-STAGE

8d. Checked time Lawrence returned clutching fizzy water
THWARTED

11d. Change the ending of popular fellow's talk with second half cut
INFLECT

19d. Fire without heat ultimately is fake
SIMULATE

Parses for the above please.

8. T (time) + DH (Lawrence, reversed) and (water)*

19. S(t)IMULATE

11. IN (popular) + F (fellow) + LECT(ure) (not quite ‘half’ cut though?)

7. OFF (kill) + STAG (hart) + (do)E (where to ‘do’ is to ‘clean’)

I think

Thanks for the replies. Some of them were a bit too convoluted and unsatisfying.

NOTE: henceforth some of these clues may also be from the Telegraph Cryptic as well as the Times cryptic (if that makes any difference with the parsing)...

16d. City that may be built when the incoming waves have been destructive?
NEWCASTLE

9a. Actor's headline portrayal of Saul's conversion
PAUL NEWMAN

1a. Attractive romantic heroine about to be possessed
CATCHY

14a. Party politician may pen article spilling secrets
REVELATORY

12a. Joy's plant, left by bishop
EUPHORIA

Parses for the above please.

16 You'd build a New sandCastle if the sea, incoming waves , washed away the original.

14 Revel, party +A, article +Tory, politician.

1 Catchy, attractive. Cathy, romantic heroine, from Wuthering Heights, with C, about, circa (Latin) inside.

16 no idea!
9 after Saul's revelation on the road to Damascus, he became PAUL, a NEW MAN
1 CATHY from Wuthering Heights around C for about ("possessed")
14 REVEL party A TORY (politician)
12 the plant EUPHORBIA (spurge) missing B for bishop

12 Euphoria, joy. The plant was Euphorbia, take out the B, bishop (left by bishop)