1: Bart's also cast as Big Bird (9)

4: With great humility His Holiness commandeers a can before a new day (3,2,4)

5: Ensemble torches tram's interior (9)

7: Nominee is cold and indifferent initially... see? (9)

9: Brown pit, essentially, in exotic green fruit (9)

1: Residue has scattered (3)

2: Mandarin tangled net in rage (9)

3: Old role for paintings that trick the eye (2,3)

6: Church council regulation sounds like a big gun (5)

8: Sound of river crossing (3)