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At the risk of sounding a bit obtuse, I found it hard to reconcile 'come up' with 'arisen' - the tenses didn't seem quite right.

Has come up, has arisen?

I like your answer to 5, Chips.

Even "is come up" in that big book with all the fancy capitals.

My 'streaks' was,obviously, steaks+r(in the month, when oysters are edible) - eminently logical, but not necessarily the correct answer.

Back just now.
Yes Tony, MEATS.
Thanks to all who had a go, peterm, chips, jws, aristophanes.

Just to complete things for newcomers to cryptics.

1. anag (production) of "sectarian" - "act" = ARISEN. Something has come up that .... : something has arisen that ....

2. A + STEROID + AL. "possibly" indicates not all steroids are hormones.

3. BULLET + IN

4. I + MP + UGN (anag of "gun".

5. meats = steaks. R = oyster months yields STREAKS = "barely charges".

Congrats to the various solvers of all five.

Hope you enjoyed 'em and that you're satisfies with explanations.