The Times 27894

[TioMateo]

Stuck on bottom right hand corner :-
1) Son, drunk, kicks daughter and kitty for no good reason (5,4) ??U?? ????
2) Old kingdom's relations on mend, after setback (6) ??????
3) Relative stages revolutionary eastern drama (7) S?E???N
4) Garden is something to dig - not large (3) ???
5) Letter's last word deviates from what's dictated? (5) Y????
6) Established Pole, losing head, has taken harmful amount neat (8) ?R?H????

I also have 2 answers that I can't parse properly :-
Nanny yours truly's rushed back to assist (9) = NURSEMAID, but why "rushed back"?
High Mass forged a major link with Islam at first (11) = KILAMANJARO (anagram of "a major link" plus "a", - so where does Islam come into it?

[mallyh]

1 s lush fun d

[Paigntonian]

3. stepson

[Toorak]

Kilimanjaro
Anagram of a major link & i(slam)

[Paigntonian]

4. wee

[mallyh]

5 yours

[Toorak]

Run (rushed) reversed + me’s (yours truly’s) reversed & aid (assist)

[donny48]

6 orthodox

[Paigntonian]

nursemaid
aid
me (yours truly)
run - rushed back

[aelmpvw]

a major link i

[donny48]

2 wessex

[TioMateo]

Thank you everybody! Some of those I should have got without being assisted, which might have then helped with the harder ones but, with apologies for being dim, I still don't get the parsing of WESSEX or YOURS.

[TioMateo]

Oh Dear! Just got one of them :- SEX on SEW backwards. How slow!