Clue Chain 10

[Canary42]

Starting Clue Chain 10 - all welcome 😊

The idea of the game is that the setter poses an original home-made clue which everybody is invited to solve.  The poster who solves the clue first (hopefully identified by the setter) is then invited to post their own original clue, easy or cryptic.  If nobody has answered the clue within 30 minutes, the setter should post a further hint and so on until the clue is solved.

The first clue is from Hazlinny as follows :-

 

Sounds a bother when I leave it shortly to head off to  fragments of concrete.  (7)

 

 

[Hazlinny]

? darter

[Patsy33]

Last two letter are right, Haz 😁  Conentrate on fly!...

[Hazlinny]

? winger

[Patsy33]

No sorry.. What's a word for 'each'? If you get that, you'll have last half of word..

[Hazlinny]

Brain not "working" tonight .......

?hopper

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[Patsy33]

You got last part of word right! If you run, dash, etc?, z??

[Hazlinny]

Got to be zipper?  wrong fly!

[Patsy33]

I did put ?... 😆

[Hazlinny]

😄

Tolerance is to combine nice pate for consumption. (8)

[dustypuss]

Patience 

[Hazlinny]

Yes Dusty 😊

[dustypuss]

EU country will share the cost 2.4

[dustypuss]

Sorry 2.5 

[Canary42]

How can you have 2.4 letters ?

[dustypuss]

note to my self. Read my post before submitting 😳

[dustypuss]

Two words.

[Canary42]

Is the 0.5 letter a hyphen, apostrophe, etc ?

[Canary42]

So you really meant (2,5) ?

[dustypuss]

Yes 

[Canary42]

Thanks Dusty (I still can't get it, LOL)