Cryptic Clues

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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. Cause ruin of the foreign weight system (7)
-2. Living outside Japan's capital (one Asian city) (7)
-3. Informer left on eastern cutter (5)
-4. Basic yen suppressed by subordinate (10)
-5. Judge beheaded felon for candy (10)
-6. Changes by breaking silences (7)
-7. With incomplete deck, skill is a drawback? (9)
-8. Incipient fighting - I'm taking back gun (7)
-9. "A very remote area covered in snow," he read (7)
-10. Greeted musicmaker dressed in blue (7)
-11. Noncom has last of the material (9)
-12. People in Atlanta ignore gas trouble (9)

Warning: #7 may fairly be categorized as Denisian

7. liability
incomplete deck 51 cards=LI
skill=ability

12. Georgians
People in Atlanta
ignore gas is anagram for Georgians

11. Noncom has last of the material (9)

material = corporeal
corporal (noncom) includes e (has last of the) = corpor(e)al

10. Greeted musicmaker dressed in blue (7)

saluted - greeted

lute - musicmker sad - blue
dressed in - saLUTEd

Perfect solves!

4. underlYing

2. Living outside Japan's capital (one Asian city) (7)

Beijing

Living = being
outside = container ind
Japan's capital = j
one = i
Asian city = Bei(ji)ng

1. Destroy (des = of in French / weight system = troy weight / cause ruin = destroy)

Bernie

And three more!

5. jawbreaker

judge = j
beheaded felon = lawbreaker - l

Nicely done, Cheryl!

3. Informer left on eastern cutter (5)

cutter = knife (direct)
fink (informer) reversed (left) = knif, + e (eastern) = knife

Well done, Jema!

9. "A very remote area covered in snow," he read (7)

nowhere - a very remote area

hidden word - insNOW HE REad

Sharp eyes, Sondi!

8. Incipient fighting - I'm taking back gun (7)

firearm?
f = incipient (start) "f"ighting
Irear=backM (taking = container)

Absolutely!

6. Changes by breaking silences (7)
mutates
MUT AT=by ES (MUTES = silences)

Perfect!