Clue Chain 11

[Canary42]

Starting Clue Chain 11 - all welcome 😊

The idea of the game is that the setter poses an original home-made clue which everybody is invited to solve.  The poster who solves the clue first (hopefully identified by the setter) is then invited to post their own original clue, easy or cryptic.  If nobody has answered the clue within 30 minutes, the setter should post a further hint and so on until the clue is solved.

 

 

The first clue is from Dustypuss

Playing around with a bird the forest (8)

 

 

 

[Canary42]

HUMDRUM is correct, well done 😊

[Patsy33]

For very old feline, I've found its maddening! (11)

[Hazlinny]

??? Provocative

[Patsy33]

Yes Haz 😀

[Hazlinny]

Thanks 😊

Highbrow music sees girl and I in carbon copy finishing Jolson.  (9)

[Patsy33]

Classical?

[Hazlinny]

Yes Patsy 🎼

c  lass I  c  al

[Patsy33]

Thanks 🍵

Right, alien has one small coin that makes him inhibited. (8)

[Hazlinny]

? Reticent

[Patsy33]

Well done Haz! 

[Hazlinny]

Thanks 😊  Apologies - forgot it was my turn.😲

Scale note with a crowd is found haunting.  (5)

[Canary42]

 

 

????        ghost.       ?????

 

 

 

 

[Hazlinny]

Yes Canary 👻

G(major scale) host (crowd)

[Canary42]

Thank you.  😊  

Sorry for delay, I've been away from Ab, then my ISP went off the air. Next clue coming shortly

[Canary42]

 

Use Latin as a protection ? (8)

[Canary42]

I'm ignoring the 30-minute "rule", the clue's too easy so I assume the hiatus is due to time of day.

 

Use Latin as a protection ? (8)

 

 

[Canary42]

I'm going out now, so if you think you've got it please don't await confirmation. Thank you.

 

Use Latin as a protection ? (8)

 

 

[dustypuss]

Insulat 

[Canary42]

INSULATE (anagram use latin)

I'll give you that Dusty

(I assume the missing e is a typo/keyboard slip)

Well done 😊

[dustypuss]

E bye gum thank you

Starts with a eighties pop group and end's with a big hit my old China (8)