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16d. US postwar planner, name associated with war lobby
MARSHALL

21a. Two things put on six of diamonds?
SHORTSTOP

4d. Wonderful first part, second parts pie in the sky?
FLYING START

Parses for the above please.

21. Two things to put on are SHORTS and a TOP. I suspect the six of diamonds has something to do with a baseball diamond but that’s far as my baseball knowledge takes me.

4. S in FYLING TART… pie in the sky!

16 sounds like MARTIAL

Thanks everyone

4a. Newspaper, perhaps, is about to back electronic device
ORGANISER

5d. Oxford exam taking care of teacher training initially? My word
GREAT SCOTT

7d. Drive out capital of Turkey, chasing a great deal for the tourist
SIGHTSEER

8d. Senior academic ignoring last page in book
RECTO

Parses for the above please.

4 Organ is another word for nrwspaper, Is in clue and Er is Re, about, reversed, back. An organiser is an electronic device - well, it was some time ago...

8 Rector would be the senior academic, drop/ignore the last letter, R, gives Recto, page in book.

5 GREATS is an OU course, then CO TT

8 pages in a book are RECTO or VERSO, depending on which way they face. Presumably the last one is RECTO. It's RECTOR (senior academic) minus the last R

5 D. Greats, Oxford (university) exam, C/O, care of (as in an address) TT, teacher training initially. Great Scott, my word. (PS I'd always thought it was Great Scot, am not sure why!)

Cheers, I'd never heard of GREATS before.
Anyone worked out SIGHTSEER?