Tel cryptic 25,339

[Honeydumplin]

OK - I know this is several days old, but just returned from holiday where I tried the cryptic for the first time. I spent hours on it, then couldn't track down a Telegraph next day for the answers!! You can tell I'm a beginner - I managed over two thirds, but am stumped with these:

Cash reserves (6) - - - - d -
Is in a hide to see a bird (6) - - - - i -
Workers' home (4)
Figure of importance in American defence (8) - - - - - - o -
Eat chips in a way that's not original (8) - - - - i - h -
Where you might finish if you take flight (8) - - a - r -
Composer writes feature about musical work (6) - - - - - m
A meeting-place in a suburban street (6) - - - - - s
Shout and dance, say (4) - - - r

If any of you can put me out of my misery, would be most grateful.

Thanks in anticipation.

[shaneystar2]

Workers home ....Hive ?

[kayakamina]

2 S is kin

4 Pentagon

5 Pastiche

[shaneystar2]

eat chips ...pastiche

[kayakamina]

A venues

[kayakamina]

1 Pounds

[shaneystar2]

Where you might finish if you take flight...upstairs

[netkey]

6 stairs?

[kayakamina]

Shout ..Bawl...Ball

[gen2]

Composer = Chopin (Chin round Op (opus))

[kayakamina]

Composer....Ch op in

[Honeydumplin]

What a great response - thanks so much to you all. They're all so straightforward (and satisfying) when you've got the answer in front of you - though I don't think I'd ever have got Chopin.

I missed one off my list: Publication for children (6) - s - u -

[Honeydumplin]

What a great response - thanks so much to you all. (Especially as I'd got another clue wrong, so you didn't even have the correct letters to work with!) They're all so straightforward (and satisfying) when you've got the answer in front of you - though I don't think I'd ever have got Chopin.

I missed one off my list: Publication for children (6) - s - u -

... and I've now just worked it out for myself: issue.

[shaneystar2]

Issue

[shaneystar2]

ooooh sorry ...it takes so long to submit anything here lately