Having suffered main loss in difficult battle, Chelsea take on dangerous responsibility (4,3,3)
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The rest are done (although I can't parse 27 which I think must be BREEZE - Comic's ending in second place — that's easy (6) - I'd be interested to understand that one too).
Neither was I and I thought the answer for a long time was "call the bet" for the dangerous activity which is also an anagram of "battle + chel". It messed me up for ages!