second one's Bad Condition

1.) Gay sports R-R-D (though not 100% on the D)
2.) Formerly in Greece, young men the last to be hip, perhaps -P---I
[rab] Really? I thought it was quite easy this week. Or was that from last week?
[Big Dave] Permitted?

[MF] You are correct.

Afraid I can't help with yours, apart from to suggest that Number 1) does not end in "D" - I have written out all the possibilities, assuming that the missing letters are vowels, and nothing seems to fit the clue. Number 2) may end in "phi" (anag. of "hip").
Sorry I can't be of more assistance.

[MF] I think your last one is EPHEBI - Big Dave was on the right track but it's "the last" (E), then an anagram of BE HIP (PHEBI). These are, according to http://76.1911encyclopedia.org/E/EP/EPHEBI.htm "a name specially given, in Athens and other Greek towns, to a class of young men from eighteen to twenty years of age, who formed a sort of college under state control."

[Darren] Thanx, that's the Sunday Times finished then. I'll send you a page of my new dictionary as soon as I've won it.
[Big D] Lugano - as in the lake?

I'll post a couple more this arvo sometime, when I can be arsed to make some up.

1) Adam Clayton?
4) Radar?

2) Ottawa?
3) Arcadian?

I'd guess those are right, so here's one of mine. I'm not a great cryptics man, so my goal is merely competence: Ingrained bear of the ocean floor (4-6).

I note my pork rump clue went unnoticed. :o)

[Big Dave/Martha Farquar] Yes, all four correct!

[Hugo] Is it DEEP-SEATED, by any chance?

"Maybe leaves ancient city in the Cape" V-R-U-E

[MF] VERDURE (maybe leaves = defn., UR in (Cap) VERDE).

Would anyone believe me if I said I'd just got it? No, probably not. How very annoying that is. Still, that's that finished, anyway

[Raak] Thanks

[Darren] It is, yes.
Flesh-eating crone follows pig draped in the Koranic verses (11). This is a work in progress, and an experiment for me, so see how you do...

Only flesh-eating crone I know is Baba Yaga - which doesn't help me but maybe it will for someone else.

CARNIVOROUS fits the length and what might be the definition, but doesn't appear to fit anything else.

It's something like ----COPHAGE or (more likely) --COPHAGOUS, I think - but the Koranic verses bit has me stumped, and the whole is (I reckon) a word I don't know.

Got it, it's SARCOPHAGUS. The COP/HAG part is at Wol suggested, and it's surrounded by SURAS, i.e. Koranic verses, except it's backwards, which there's no indication of. The definition part is cleverly obscure, I had to search for this to confirm it. , Koranic verses might be indicating SURAS, but SURAPHAGOUS SARCOPHAGUS

Ignore the fragments after the part that makes sense.

[Raak, Wol] Thunderous applause Good work.
A spot on the unfair side, I think; the experiment was in judging difficulty. If you hadn't got it, I'd have reposted as Flesh-eating Greek crone.... I do wish I could find a way to indicate the reversal of SURAS without losing the neatness and sense of the clue...