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Last one, 6d, E.g. sturgeon's pawn otherwise wasted time; I have ?AD?ETT and can find nothing in Chambers, I see that 'time' may be the final T, but any ideas?

Wadsett (variation of Wadset).

It's in Chambers = wadset and wadsett mean (in Scotland) a mortgage, something pledged or pawned.

...and I think it's just an anagram of 'wasted' and the 't' for Time.

Many thanks, I gave up through Chambers when I got to V!

Glad I could help - not always the case with Mephisto!

14A. Bacchante's last bay and brawl? (4) EVO-.
23A. Indian copper beginning to police a bus system, in short (5) PAI-A.
30A. A poisonous reptile in an Indian tree (5) A-I-A.
27D. British Library concerned with "cesse" (4) --I-.

14 Evoe - it's in Chambers, I've forgotten the definition.
23 Paisa, an Indian coin (I think).
30 Agila (Gil is the reptile)

Thanks Malone.......

27 D Blin - BL/British Library and in/concerned with. I had to check Chambers, it means 'to cease'.