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No queries, just a huge sigh of relief after finishing this. It seemed more straightforwward than Saturday's ... beast!

Definite improvement on Saturday's horror, though I've still got quite a few gaps, especially in the top left.

47d Stone to kill, sent skywards (5)
This looks like 'topaz'. Top = kill, but how is the 'az' explained?

To = to, kill = zap.

Other way round, StrangelyBrown. Zap is to kill.

Thanks.

9d nine of diamonds (8,4)

?a?e?a?l ?e?m

Baseball Team (nine players, play on a grid/diamond)

It doesn't fit, of course, but NINE OF DIAMONDS is known as "the curse of Scotland"!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_Scotland#:~:text=The%20Curse%20of%20Scotland%20is,this%20nickname%20for%20the%20card.

Thanks, don’t know anything about baseball so would never have got that.

Thanks, SB. My knowledge of the sport is equal to yours, I got the answer only from playing with the letters (I had the same as you at that stage).