1: It's exciting, for example, holding a tongue (7)

5: Make southpaw north (5)

6: A representative may be a scamp (3)

7: Ban professional writer (9)

8: Sound of river crossing (3)

9: Poles suffer internally - they're hard (5)

10: Actors were first to have moved on board (7)

2: Fashionable journalist coming back after battle (1,2,4)

3: Simpletons at home with no money (9)

4: Classical musician composing her opus (7)

5: A fool had peas cooked (7)

6: First lost inability to drop by (7)