Local Cryptic Crossword

[tublo]

Please can you help with these (and explain how you arrive at the answer) Thank you

5 letters E__S__E Come after 67 1/2 degrees E surrounds backward American

3 & 4 letters P__E __D__T Grass in colliery correct in advance

9 letters N__W__O__ __ __N Recent nation, muddle yields classical mechanics

5 letters D__ __ __C Drop rain oddly before first crime. That's capital

5 letters T__T__R Lighter and thinning

[Mamyalynne]

1 ensue

[Canary42]

3 and 4
pre-edit = reed inside pit

[Canary42]

9 Newtonian (mechanics) - new + anag of nation

[Mamyalynne]

4 Doric

[auntflo]

9 newtonian

[Mamyalynne]

5 Taper

[imagcq]

doric ensue newtonion

[Canary42]

Doric (a capital architecture feature) = odd letteres of drop rain before first letter of crime

[ubasses]

5 taper a fire lighter and something that thins at the end

[tublo]

Thank you all very much