Secret Words

Find the five-letter secret word through the process of elimination and deduction. The answers to the clues below are five-letter words. The number in the parentheses tells you how many of the letters in that word are also in the secret word. Once you determine the letters, anagram them to form the secret word. No letter is repeated in any answer word or in the secret word itself. The first letters of the answers, reading down, spell out a hint.

-1.
Helps a felon (2)
Hues (3)
_____ tennis (1)
Longed (1)
Swindle (0)
Contains (3)
Ms. Ferber, et al. (3)
Parboil (2)

-2.
Twosomes (3)
____ Allen Poe (2)
Animal enclosures (2)
Between (0)
Prod (2)
Domesticates (2)
Pass into law (3)
Director Polanski (1)

-3.
Adhered (1)
Follows closely (3)
Sharp, as pain (1)
Enumerate (0)
Prepared to propose (2)
Nimoy role (2)
Join together (2)
Shrub, e.g. (2)

-4.
Claw (2)
Raves (3)
Wedding member (3)
Syrup source (0)
Stage in development (2)
Explode (1)
Volumes (2)
Portion (3)

-5.
Disposed (0)
Visual (3)
Annoyed (2)
Loud (2)
Sampled (2)
Access (1)
Stones (3)

-6.
Train bunk (0)
Different (1)
Ballroom dance (3)
Custom (1)
Rye disease (2)
Takes a cab (2)
Get up (3)

2. cruet

3.
stuck
tails
acute
count
kneel
spock
unite
plant

piles

6. goads

berth
other
tango
habit
ergot
rides
stand

1. bonds

abets
tones
table
ached
cheat
holds
Ednas
scald

Great solves!

Manxman, or anyone else, please provide the list of words for #2.

And Bob, the word "kneel" is not correct because no letters are repeated within words.

4. horns (trumpets)
talon
rants
usher
maple
phase
erupt
tomes
share

2. duets
edgar
cages
among
nudge
tames
enact
roman

Excellent!

5. stick

prone
optic
irked
noisy
tried
entry
rocks

3. knelt, also I hadn't noticed it was past tense.

Good job, Sherlock, and nicely wrapped up, Bob.