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What's elected to hold up one with a bunch of keys? (7)

- - - - - - A

What's elected? Some Latin word to do with government perhaps, ending in IA?

Keys? Florida keys... the House of Keys...piano keys...singing in key...?=================================================
Break tenses found immediately before this? (9)

- - - - - - S - S

Could this be ELEVENSES? (A break - but the rest of the clue? I don't quite see)
I was thinking earlier of some technical word to do with grammar or syntax (you know, like PARENTHESIS, ELLIPSIS etc).
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Remove worry with no sign of hesitation (6)

(If ELEVENSES correct, the answer to this would begin with E. (E - - - - -))

TENses come immediately before ELEVENses

Remove worry - excise - exercise (which is a bit of a dubious clue for worry) with er removed

Trevor: thank you. TENses!!!

I have another letter now for:

What's elected to hold up one with a bunch of keys? (7)

- - L - - - A

anniec: thank you. I had pencilled in EXCISE, but couldn't see how to work it. You are right!

That means I now have

C - L - - - A
for the

What's elected... bunch of keys?

CELESTA (Keyboard instrument)

also shown in reverse in the clue! ;O)

Celesta - its bacwards in the clue (and I only found it by uding the xword solver here - its a musical instrument!)

Yeah, got it, folks! Thanks.

That now gives me help with another:

Crisis of old god in retirement (4):

S - E -

SUEZ!

ZEUS!

An instrument raised capital for the locals (5).

- - A - A
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Take off around start of summer recess (4).

- - - E