2: Sort of plain fur! (5)
3: Giant fish, note, approaches Italian city (not capital) (9)
4: Sounds like a bright child (3).
5: Mischievous child learning to beg (7)
6: Said I, 'So be yourself' (suppressing, 'be defiant!') (7)
9: In Howard's End - one has a passage here from Forster (5)
11: Nothing we have to pay (3)