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With considerable help from Les-

1. -
2. TRIMESTER ( academic term, 3 months)


neat = trim + ester - orderly (anagrind) of trees


3) A haunting fear is a Spectre - N American spelling is SPECTER


Like Rodin, Landsee(R ETC EPS)tein was .....


Brought up = returned
embracing = containing

4} LARNE as in "That'll larn (learn) yer" where I come from (Birkenhead, shudder). Town in N.I.


5) FLASH IN THE PAN (briefly successful)


hit = lash / in Finland = Fin - F(lash) in / at the time = then / inspired (breathed in thus contained) pop = pa
F(lash) in the (pa)n

Don't know what happened to the rest of my post!
2) Trimester
3) Specter
4) Larne
5) Flash in the pan

I've got the same as AB.

Thanks again, Jolan - love "Larne"!

In addition, thanks Tony, Ros, AB and Peterm. Well solved. It looks like I'll never have an 'unsolvable' one again. You experts and too... well... expert. I try to avoid answers to which require looking up (although relievo is not yer common-usage word).

For completion, here is my working:-

1. ‘over’ [retiring] = revo; lie ‘in’ = re(lie)vo = RELIEVO = appearance of relief (Chambers D)
2. neat = trim; + anag(orderly) of ‘trees’; yields TRIMESTER = academic term.
3. “brought up + embracing” (it’s “in” there, backwards) SPECTER (N Am spelling of spectre) = a haunting fear (Chambers Dict)
4. larn = to teach (dialect or facetious) Chambers D; + E = LARNE. It’s in N.I.
5. hit = LASH (lash = hit in Chambers and Oxford Thesauri): Finland = FIN (IVR);
hit in Finland = FLASH IN. at that time = THEN; pop = PA; ‘then’ inspired (took in) ‘pa’ = THE PAN yielding FLASH IN THE PAN = briefly successful (Chambers D).
The comma after Finland breaks the clue into two parts.

Thabks a million for having a go. Hope you enjoyed them. See you next week (hopefully). Off to my 7-courser now.
Bless
John

Thanx Chris. You posted as I typed. J

Enjoy your meal, Jolan and thank you again for such brilliant and challenging clues.

Had to run off for a while. Good ones again, Jolan! You'll perhaps be amused to hear that my first guess for 3 was WINDIGO (a haunting fear of NA), and I wondered whether Rodin and Landseer were winos. Got it eventually.

Aristophanes

As a dog lover I was sorry to read your sad news.

T

Thank you, Tony. He was almost completely blind and deaf (though he could still find his way around- to the aforementioned piano, for example), and I was praying that he'd go on his own. He did.