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Sorry Poppy can't get the remaining at all.
Can only think:
Fish
Music
System of relative values
Climbing
Residue left in a kettle.
Tried them all but failure.Sorry.
TJ
ps There must be someone on the site who can help!

6 L-Y-R-
Are you sure about the Y?
I have been thinking along the track of leger lines, the little lines for notes that are above or below the staff.
Legers then could be defined as the things put on scales.

6. Layers

layers place (put on) bets

Hi kookaburra
the clue giving me the Y is...In the convent it gives preferential treatment...my answer is PRIORITY
The clue giving me the R is...Just the place to find amusement...my answer is FAIR

I kept thinking of "layers" but couldn't see the reasoning, hence the stab in the dark with leger lines.
Looks like I'm wrong yet again.

How about looking at it this way - layers - they put things on, and scales - could be a layer on something, such as deposit in a kettle, tartar on teeth, etc, etc.

an adjective of layer is scaly..therefore layers for scales looks to be correct...but I could also be wrong !

This "Canberra Times" clue is beginning to sound like many of the other perplexing messages emanating from Canberra.

I don't have Chambers - clue would make sense if scale meant the contraption that chickens lay into and the egg rolls down!

Chambers gives the following for scale:
a thin plate on a fish, reptile.., overlapping in armour.
verb : to peel off in thin layers
And more similar, I've broken my arm so typing isn't easy!