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Head of Secret Service soon to become a priest (5)

(UK’s head of MI6 is known as “C”, “anon” archaic = soon)

Doctrine not allowed in old Chinese City (5)

CANTON

Shot fired? It might be. (6)

(Cannon is a scoring shot in billiards).

[re mine @6
After T.S.Eliot was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, a reporter asked him if it was for The Waste Land.
"No", he replied "it was for my whole canon".
The headline the next day "Eliot awarded Nobel Prize for his poem My whole canon. ]

Round about soon (5)

This round has its follower that's the rule(5)

Caitlin's exhausted, essentially struggling in two shakes of a pom-pom (6)

C (aitli) n
Struggling - anag. ind. Anon (in two shakes)
Pom-pom - def.

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John running from the law (5)

Proclaim sprawling Tyneside University is condemned by law (5)

Japanese camera maker, subsidiary of Leica? Nonsense! (5)