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. Fuel makes a favorite aerobatic maneuver end abruptly (6)
-2. Arrangement for ten-time car payment (10)
-3. Debating field event with snitch (10)
-4. Arranged to write will during bad dream (10)
-5. Incidentally taking up litter? (4)
-6. Twelve keeping horse in shape (7)
-7. English sailor in standard cheap hotel (7)
-8. Somehow staying dark and gloomy (7)
-9. Part of the background in the bustling metropolis (9)
-10. Cad turned angry in European city (9)

10: Rotterdam ; rotter = cad, dam = mad (turned)

2. Remittance (anag)

3. discussing

field event = discus
snitch = sing

Yes, yes and yes!

7. fleabag

E(nglish) AB(able-bodied seaman) in FLAG

8. Somehow staying dark and gloomy (7)

stygian - angr(staying)

Two good solves!

1. Petrol (favorite = pet / acrobatic movement = roll, ending abruptly take away the last L)

Bernie

Good one, Bernie!

4. marshalled

will = shall
during = container ind.
bad dream = mared

Good one, Cheryl!

9. Part of the background in the bustling metropolis (9)

ethnicity - angr(in the) + city

6. Nonagon = shape - noon (twelve) containing (keeping) nag (horse).

(I spent some time trying to justify rhombus, on the basis of h or ho being horse!)

You stuck it out, Lex!

Here I come to save the day...a-la-JohnnyK !!

5: PupS = litter ; PS = incidentally (PostScript)

9: ETHNI("in the" bustling=ind.)CITY(metropolis)

Denis - only 5 out of 14!

You nailed them both, Denis! And where the heck has JohnnyK been? He used to at least stop by once in a while to clean up the toughies.

CCb already had 9 - some of us are a tad soporific...!

Sorry CCb...Pandora had not tagged it...

No big deal. Congrats to you and Lex for 5 and 6. Those were very tough!

***looks up soporific***

True!

5 was way tougher than 6

I agree with Denis about 5 being tougher than 6, and I think that soporific usually means causing drowsiness (rather than drowsy) so that I may have misused it ( I recall lettuces being described as soporific in one of the Peter Rabbit books).

Noooo...was joking...