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1 Across, Embarrassed to spot water being passed by drunkard? (8)

5 Across, Wrong tel .no, name forgotten - up a gum - tree (6)

9 Across, Once more almost 1A about East Indian music (4,5)

12 Across, Crashed car into bus?Must not half become hard to control (12)

Compiler - HOB

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12a rambunctious

1 Sheepish, embarrassed. I'll leave you to parse -it's basically how a drunk would say something!

5 tupelo?

anagram tel (n)O up
It's tree, but I don't know if it's a gum tree!

9 Over Again. Raga is the Indian music, am working on the rest!

OVINE would be "sheeplike" or "sheepish", but we need OVEIN

Chris, 'almost sheepish', almost ovine, would give 'ovin', then stick in the E from East?

Could it be ovin (almost 1a) about Eastern (e)

@ Chris

Nyssa sylvatica, commonly known as black tupelo, tupelo, or blackgum, is a medium-sized deciduous tree native to eastern North America from the coastal Northeast USA and southern Ontario south to central Florida and eastern Texas, as well as Mexico.

Thanks all for the clarification :)