8ac Players pass in succession , we hear _ _ _U_ _
21ac Bikini, perhaps, is new transfixing young male _S_A_ _
26ac Bachelor say beginning to gravitate into uncivilised envy _E_R_ _ _E
1dn A chapel that's empty in service say showing sentimentality _ _ _A_L_
3dn Northerly river abroad circling old area _ _ _I_N
15dn Get rid of letter about wife and daughter - it's unwelcome in nursery _I_ _ _E_ _