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I need some help on a lot of these c.c. clues from a crossword puzzle book.

1.) Hurriedly rises with some ethnic food (5,4)
**I*****W

2.) Beauty of motion is good competition (5)
**A**

3.) Channel is audible- I'm listening! (5)
C****

4.) Told of diet in crackers (8)
*O******

5.) "Bush country," Gore penned in "Nation" (9)
**S******

6.) Biased and dark-complected? (6)
*N****

7.) Ravine put there after May (6)
******

8.) Lined up cans in letter line (5)
*****

9.) Amended a pitch below average (6)
******

10.) Was the director introduced to the second Persian? (5)
**A**

11.) Scooped up from the bottom and coated with powder (7)
**E****

12.) Sports official drops a repeated phrase (7)
R******

1. IRISH STEW, anagram
2. G RACE
3. SHOOT? if the C is incorrect, as in 'go ahead, I'm listening'
Sounds like 'chute', channel

..or 3. could be the other way around, and the answer is 'chute'

thanks for the help on those. What would fit is "chute"

4. NOTIFIED, anagram
5. AUSTR AL IA
6. UNFAIR

12 Refrain, a repeated phrase. Ref, sports official + Rain, drops.

11. Dredged, double definition (you dredge cakes with icing sugar, for example

Thanks for the help so far. Some of the answers changed some of my former answers so I just wanted to add just a couple more.

1.) Ravine put there after May (6)
*****N

2.) Turner University rally, of course (9)
**T***L**

3.) Amended a pitch below average (6)
*T***D

4.) Jordan's neighbor finally takes away our Pepsi Cola (5)

5.) Lined up cans in letter line (5)
****F

2 Naturally - Nat +U, university +Rally.

5 Serif, letter line (on certain characters). It's Fires, cans, reversed.

1 Canyon ?

4, finally takeS awaY ouR pepsI colA
Syria.