Guide for riverside in Italy (7)

Become defensive when told to start eating … (3,2)

… a biscuit red head produced (6,3)

Irate chum suffering with stiff joints (9)

Authoritative ruling from soccer body that wants active leaders (5)

Cutting head of weed off when growing (5)

Embittered expert judged to have stolen book (9)

Dried rose cooked as an addition to main course (4,5)

Odds, oddly, may be this! (5)

Nomads use trails central for these tribes people (5)

Oxford museum compiled article on tree growth (9)

Exercise expected to captivate eager teacher (9)

Pursue game that's hiding quietly (5)

Abandoned pipe not mine (4,3)

Beat chap — it's not the main issue (7)

Country road ran randomly (7)

Drop back to keep seat warm? (3,6)

Upsetting part of sermon evoked rancour (5)

Proper worker, a man indispensable to the boss (5-4)

Criticise extremely idiotic hysteria (5)

Popular oath can be impossible to say (9)

Conviction for injecting double energy into high explosive (5)

Win support for essential truth from small part of England (7)

Division in band that's getting older (7,2)

Alternative theatre is most indecent (9)

Dog at sea enabled Darwin to develop his evolutionary theory (3,6)

Player needing second income source when promise broken (4-3)

Occasionally stern solicitor dispatched (4,3)

Small border plant (5)

Specialist language used to describe advance in painting? (5)

Historical centre of holy study (5)