Cryptic Clues - directs in bold

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These have all been created by a variety of well-known constructors. There may be one or two that we might question, but they're still fun. Please explain all answers.

-1. Melting ice originally covered by brownish-purple volcanic rock (6)
-2. Be overly frugal and fail to report income partner's capital (5)
-3. Chunks of egg left among almonds and pecans (7)
-4. Sailing canoe by myself across part of the Pacific (7)
-5. Some decadent or temptingly rich dessert (5)
-6. Pointed out parts as two contrary things (9)
-7. Part of a flight heading to Rome is evacuated earlier (5)
-8. Speech or a lecture about musical composition (7)
-9. Dark brown endless abyss in large body of water (5)
-10. Buggy got ruined taking the back roads (9)
-11. Error by group of lawmen switching last two reports (7)

5. Some decadent or temptingly rich dessert (5)

rich dessert = torte (hidden word)

10. Anagram. got ruined = detouring

1. Melting ice originally covered by brownish-purple volcanic rock (6)

pumice - volcanic rock

puce - brownish-purple
m(elting) i(ce)originally covered by (container ind)

9. Sepia = dark brown - pi(t) (endless abyss) contained in sea (large body of water)

11. exposés

error = ex (X)
group of lawmen = posse
last 2 switched = poses

6. antipodes
a+(anag. of pointed)+s

Excellent solves!

Cheryl, you'll have to fix your explanation a little bit. The posse part is correct.

3: NUggeTS

Good solve!

8. Recital (double definition?)

Bernie

I can see where you got that from, Bernie, but that's not my answer. No double definition.

Oops, I thought we were talking about my ex again!

Really, it's probably something that I'm just not seeing right now.

It's there. It's sneaky.

Is it E(error) times(by) poses?

Yes! Good solve!

8. chorale (hidden word)

Well spotted!

4. Sailing canoe by myself across part of the Pacific (7)

Sailing = anagram ind.
canoe = Ocean
myself = i
across = a
part of the Pacific = Oceania (direct)

Good job, Koala!

Hints added!

7: Part of a flight heading to Rome is evacuated earlier (5)
Riser = part of flight (of stairs!).
R(ome) IS E(arlie)R ; if so, "evacuated earlier" is really neat!!

Good solve, Denis. I liked that one, too.

The last one is a simple charade. The clue splits where you don't expect it to.

2. Be overly frugal and fail to report income partner's capital (5)
cheap?
cheat = fail to report income
p = partner's capital (capital letter = first letter)
...probably wrong; don't see anything indicating "t"
being replaced by "p"...

2. Be overly frugal and fail to report income partner's capital (5)

skimp - be overly frugal

skim - fail to report income
P(artner's) capital


meant to replace the above with this

Well Sondi, "cheap" is probably wrong:
changed my mind to SKIMp(artner's capital) !

You nailed it, Sondi!