Telegraph Cryptic Connections Puzzle For This Week

[Matakari]

Good evening,
Answers with parsing for 1, 3, 4 and 5 would be appreciated.
Many thanks in advance!

Cryptic Connections
In a Cryptic Connections puzzle, five cryptic crossword clues must be solved; their answers can be made from the list of letters given underneath. Once all the clues have been solved, some letters will be unused; these can be arranged to give a word or phrase that links the answers to the five clues.

1 Politician with data about soldiers (5)
2 Some terrible rot spoken about shop (5)
3 Capsule briefly unpleasant for traveller (7)
4 Launch without a perfume (5)
5 Barrow boy perhaps describes American ship (7)

A B C C E E E E E E G G I I L L M N N O O O P R R R R S S S T T T T T

[cashier]

2 store in clue reversed

[cashier]

3 pilgrim

[cashier]

3 Pil(l) and grim

[bobbinwales]

1 green?

[bobbinwales]

is 4 definately 5 letters

[Neveracrossword]

Matakari, maybe you should give us the (solitary) answer you have - - and then we can tick off the letters, finish off the puzzle?

[bobbinwales]

i assumed it was 2 matakri had as he didnt ask for that to be explained

[Neveracrossword]

Thanks, Bobbinwales - I was keen to start crossing off some of the letters and hadn't noticed Cashier answered the one Matakari had managed himself!

[bobbinwales]

If GREEn is right for politician (GEN around RE for soldiers) then I think we'er left with
A B C C E E E L N O O R S S T T T T

[Neveracrossword]

I worked out that we ended up with Bottle as the connection. I think 5 might be Coaster (American ship, and it sounds like Coster, barrow boy). This could be nonsense, of course!

[Etch]

4 is SCENT - 'ascent' without the 'a'

[bobbinwales]

4 is (A)scent so that all works out

[Neveracrossword]

Thanks, Etch - I forgot to mention that, it's what left me with more helpful letters.

[Neveracrossword]

Matakari, if you win this one, I think you should put our names in a hat to see who gets the prize!

[Matakari]

Many thanks, all! I think I'll take up NACW's suggestion if I win, so keep your fingers crossed, hihihihi!

[Captain2]

NaC, isn't it

5 Barrow boy = COSTER (monger), describing/around A(merican)

[Neveracrossword]

Thanks, Captain2 - much better, ie correct! I had not many letters left, spotted the Bottle and rushed scrambling the rest.

Matakari, I think there could be about 10 years of back prizes - you might have cupboards full of dictionaries and pens and book tokens and... (You don't really enter puzzles where you've solved only 1 clue?)

[Captain2]

I think I only follow these threads for your subliminal comments, NaC. ;0))))))))

[Neveracrossword]

Thanks, Captain2. I approach each and every one with enthusiasm...

[dannyk13]

Connection is Bottle