Possible Clues:

• Pertaining to a country
• It may be grand at a tree that's got A in it
• At the A1 tree it's grand
• Newspaper thinking sensibly makes change to leader
• Like some pride
• Major newspaper
• E.g. German or Italian examination a linguist has included
• Subject Antonia disseminated to student
• Washington ballplayer
• In middle of explanation, altered subject?