Rte 9

[scooke]

2d how close can one be.. picking more from your pocket?(6)?e????
3d opera comes at a cost somehow(5)?o???
4d upwardly unsound and down to confound(4)?t??
1d alarmist to the end(4-6)?o??-monger

[klazomaniac]

3 Tosca

[klazomaniac]

4 Stun (Nuts reversed)

[klazomaniac]

1d Fear-monger ?

[klazomaniac]

2 Nearby ??

[bobbinwales]

An be and Y(ou)R anagram?

[bobbinwales]

doommonger

[bobbinwales]

2d AN comes from close of cAN, +BE+ YR from YouR (assume pocket means outer letters of your)

[klazomaniac]

That makes sense Bob ^^^

[klazomaniac]

Was refering to doom monger. Nearby and Nearly fit the first part of the clue. But can't make any sense of the parse. The good old RTE ;-)

[snaro]

How about dearer ? Just did a recheck

[scorpiojo]

Sounds good, snaro - double definition

[scorpiojo]

= closer and more expensive

[snaro]

Tanxs scorpiojo

[Annok7]

Annok7
2down nearer