2: Noise of family gathering at the start (5)
3: A country, one said, in trouble (9)
4: Sound of river crossing (3)
5: Others acquired skill to turn over a new leaf (7)
6: Expert made to order in the world of scholarship (7)
9: In Howard's End - one has a passage here from Forster (5)
11: Fathers start to applaud, in afterthought (3)