Across: 1,11. Footballer that's cast in key decision to go and spoil a master class essentially? (5 8) 4. Lingo he's buggered when Oz leader's gone walkabout? (7) 9. Country in anger at being beaten? (9) 10. Enamoured with initially urgent sticky pleasure (5) 11. see 1 across 12. French love having striker's finish piercing defence (6) 14. Little dog favourite... eternally poetic and a master of manipulation (9) 16. Gore badly? This fellow might! (4) 18. Football ground... no values displayed? (4) 19. Fake hairdo, as Reverend suggested in lapse of judgement (5 4) 23. Game heads two classic, epic tense 8 30s (6) 24. Forgetting 'e', incorrectly clue word "quiet" in major tournament (5 3) 27. see 5 down 28. Present model of electronic leader and promise to have it replace king (9) 29. see 5 down 30. see 8 down Down: 1. To Hindu, sense of duty is hurt being included in superficial dogma (6) 2. Composer of large arrangement (5) 3. We pound ground, as 11 eventually did for 7 (5 2) 4. Online commitment eating user up (1-9) 5,27ac,29ac. Go with an aired shot? Hard (recent fury when heads not involved)... so this is 11s follow-up to the 7! (4 2 3 7) 11s follow-up to the 7... go with a high shot, hard! (Recent fury with no heads involved?) :6. Spill the beans: playing well! (6) 7. Chinese have odd fog swirling about divine intervention (4 2 3) 8,30ac. Chewed fat... quarrel in big game! (7 5) 13. In 1986, 11 was there for 24 and married old partner, one a bit shy to deliver detailed quote (6 4) 15. Perhaps Bacchanalian cuties can dance (9) 17. Star of the show leads in laughing time (7) 20. Endless land not getting sown forces reduction (4-3) 21. Humiliate with escapade, meandering through the middle (6) 22. A quiet ring or loud shout? (6) 25. Controlling industrial relations can present as a marker? (5) 26. Fellows join union as it provides options! (4) Solution: DIEGO=ENGLISH==| H=L=W=S=O=N=A=Q| ARGENTINA=FONDU| R=A=E=G=L=O=D=A| MARADONA=ARMOUR| A===U=A=M=M=F=T| =PUPPETEER=OGRE| H=N===U=X===O=R| OVAL=BRAINFADE=| T=S=D=E=C=A===A| SOCCER=WORLDCUP| H=E=M=M=C=L=A=P| OFTHE=EPITOMISE| T=I=A=N=T=F=R=A| ==CENTURY=FINAL| Name: 907 - Swirling Fog Author: by BenDR Annos-Across: 1,11. DIE + GO MAR A DON + (cl)A(ss) 4. *( LING(o) HE'S ) &lit 9. *( IN ANGER AT ) 10. FOND + U 12. (strike)R in AMOUR 14. PUP + PET + E'ER 16. *GORE 18. tel (n)O VAL(ues) 19. sp( feign braid ) 23. tails (head)S (tw)O (classi)C, (epi)C (tens)E (quarte)R 24. *( CLU(e) WORD ) + P 28. E + P(r->IT)OMISE Annos-Down: 1. HARM in D(ogm)A 2. *LARGE 3. *( WE POUND ) 4. *( EATING USER ) 5,27ac,29ac. GO + A LOFT + H + (r)ECENT + (f)URY 11s follow-up to the 7. Follow-up to 7 by 11 :6. IN FORM 7. HAN + *( ODD FOG ) 8,30ac. *( FAT QUARREL IN ) 13. M + EX + I CO( CIT(e) )Y 15. *( CUTIES CAN ) 17. TS in HO HO + T 20. FALLO(w) + FF 21. middle of (escapa)DE, MEAN(dering) 22. A + P + PEAL 25. IR in CAN 26. MEN + U Defs-Across: 1,11. Footballer 4. Lingo he's buggered when Oz leader's gone walkabout? (7) 9. Country 10. sticky pleasure 12. defence 14. master of manipulation 16. This fellow might! 18. Football ground 19. lapse of judgement 23. Game 24. major tournament 28. Present model of Defs-Down: 1. To Hindu, sense of duty 2. Composer 3. as 11 eventually did for 7 4. Online commitment 5,27ac,29ac. 11s follow-up to the 7 :6. Spill the beans 7. divine intervention 8,30ac. big game 13. In 1986, 11 was there for 24 15. Perhaps Bacchanalian 17. Star 20. reduction 21. Humiliate 22. loud shout? 25. marker 26. it provides options