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7d (6) sweden? Editor breaks scoop about country

9ac (6) Suit team in Edinburgh -e-r-s no idea

17 ac (4,2) lean to? Park car here perhaps in green area, not elsewhere

21d (6) Guard's chum eats turbot now and then
p---o- is it parrot?

can't parse any of them

7d yes, sw ed en
scoop- news (reversed)

9 Hearts - a team and a card suit

9a ' hearts' ? suit and football team

thats a help

hearts = suit of cards and football team
lea = green area + n to (anag of not)

7d) yes Sweden .....scoop = news backwards with Ed (itor)
9a) Hearts a playing card suit and a team in Edinburgh
17a)lean to lea (green area) + not (anag)
21d) patrol pal = chum + tro from turbot

21 Pa tro l - patrol - tro letters from turbot

21d patrol? = guard
chum- pal =
+t r o alternate letters of turbot(now and then )

well i think I've finished

is 24 ac tiptop?

First class clue to origin of puzzle