Across
Knight feeding waterbird to queen, say? (8)
A thin peg, originally designed, that's pushed into hair (6)
See 7
Aged aristo sacked, thank God (3,7)
Queen behind an old faithful companion, briefly backing high street trader (6)
Protection from sunlight certainly possessed in centre of Greece (8)
17a
Castles for female player (7,7)
See 15
King or queen, say, cutting fruit, one might eat it all (8)
Place keeping masks etc in pawn (6)
Kings for author (5,5)
White pawn (4)
Lovely island castle (6)
Parsimony has got queen into trouble (8)
Down
Song she sang about bishop where 2 etc found? (8)
Perfect coin (4)
Audible tunes for king or queen, say (6)
Understand cricketing term — clear (3,4)
King Lear, his head in conclusion off? (7,1)
Wrongly accused, as one hopes those leaving theatre have been (8,2)
10a
Conspire with saintly bishop, a debt to resolve (3,3,4)
Content of computer wiper twice by me, ie foolishly in online fraud? (10)
Register right, make changes again (8)
Number of balls thrown, grey (8)
Japanese food English lady eats in the morning (7)
Playwright I harm (6)
Kind of delivery from the east of Germany into China (6)
Clue in Telegraph intractable (4)
Type letters or click words in the clue