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Can anyone help me parse these clues?

Run through check endlessly (5) INCUR

Little French lawyer retreating from dishonest dough (5) KNISH

Freed from trouble cleaner is just after vacuum (5) DYSON

Peremptory solicitor probing a nobbler's drug (8) ABSOLUTE

Jargon of technical institutes eg I suppose is to unsettle(5) FEESE

Demand get-go of proprietary drug (5) SALEP

Is it just me? I do find Paul McKenna's (Auctor) clues depart some way from Ximenean principles

6 Bradford's crossword dictionary gives Sale for 'demand' and the first letter, get-go of Proprietary is P.


3. The Ail, trouble, comes lout of Daily, cleaner, but that's all I have so far!

Jargon.... I think it's FE giving Further Education, technical institutes eg I suppose and Ese, jargon. It's like Legalese, Journalese... Feese, to unsettle.

1 IN CUR(B)

2 KN (AV) ISH

3, as Malone says, it’s D(ail)Y + (i)S + ON (just after), which is in Chambers
4, definition is peremptory, as in final, SOL (solicitor) in A BUTE, short for phenylbutazone, an anti-inflammatory drug used on horses.

Actually I think Bute masks pain to make horses run faster, and nobblers would be attempting the opposite, but what do I know? The dictionary says phenylbutazone is used in horse-doping, so maybe that excuses it