Seven numbered clues, answers all begin with āVā and are linked by a final clue.
1.Cycle lanes loved around the capital(9)
2.Emphatic victory, alien stuffed by Tarzan and Hercules(8)
3.Redford and Pitt in their field arguably turning this out ... river runs through it(8)
4.Used by some granddads?(6)
5.It's horrible hugging Newcastle birds, they can get stuffed!(4-6)
6.Such sacrifice Saviour made when suffering first in Calvary(9)
7.Rev put up with Vatican City primacy(5)
Wild beast with a brush found on the doorstep, is London finally lost?(7)