Missing Letters By Conto...in Crossword Centre

[Matakari]

www.crossword.org.uk/missing.html

Good Sunday morning,all! This looks like the final batch as NACW, whose patience I continue to try, would say. Answers with parsing and the apposite letters for the following would be appreciated, thanks in advance!

For each clue, one apposite letter is absent from the wordplay. Clues are listed alphabetically by answer. Answers should be fitted into the numbered grid. Chambers Dictionary is recommended but does not give one commonly used entry.

Standard or dairy-free Galaxy? (2,3)
Starts to lay out utensils and to serve oriental fruit (7)
Meals regularly dispatched by one very loud dog (7)
Mother with large boy getting the train? (7)
Meals regularly dispatched by one very loud dog (7)
Young person (that’s posh) by the banks of Venice river (8) ( ?U?E???N )
City leaders in advance talks with Conto’s waste disposal facility! (8)
Fruit beer distributed with obscure packaging (9)

[emmie]

4 Mallard?

[Neveracrossword]

2. Loquats
3 Mastiff
6 Juvenile
7. Laxative
8 Blueberry

[emmie]

Mallard is name of an old train.

[Neveracrossword]

Yes, Emmie - it's Ma +L, large and Lad, boy. The R is absent.

[bobbinwales]

5 is mastiff.
Anyone got one?
Any letters matakari. Something bar?

[Neveracrossword]

Yes, Bobbinwales - I gave Mastiff earlier. Matakari gave the clue twice.

Standard... My Way (song,standard)

[bobbinwales]

Ah to do with m(ilk) yway

[bobbinwales]

(Milk) y way plus missing M

[Neveracrossword]

Thanks, Bobbinwales - so many answers have been given, I couldn't be bothered parsing them all!