Any help you could provide with the following clues would be really appreciated :)
1. a burden, like this clue (6 letters)
2. place of learning a 1950s youth joined (6 letters)
3. impresario with purplier complexion engaging staff (8 letters)
4. art work father's allowed to put back (6 letters)
5. male runner trappeing northern bird of prey (3, 7 letters)
6. in brothers' place, cultivate liliaceous plant (10 letters)
7. pay for bench with high back (6 letters)
8. complete books written in republic (6 letters)
9. beast in this place beside crossing (8 letters)
10. Tear into pigs' pen, being like young wild boar (6 letters)
11. it takes 100 years to cross a Eurasian plant (8 letters)
12. surpass son in unacceptable blunder (8 letters)
13. wells once associated with these tack-makers, say? (8 letters)
14. benevolent daily, one on board (10 letters)
15. away from coast, not on river in oxford, for example (8 letters)
16. divert attention from girls' pamphlet (8 letters)
17. rustic given bad time in outskirts of Ventnor (8 letters)
No. 10 might be s_r_ _ _.
No. 3 might be _ _ o _ u _ e _.
No. 5 might be _ e _ h _ _ _ _ _ _.
No. 6 might be _ _ _ _ _ _ l _ r _.
No. 9 might be _ e _ e _ r _ d.
No. 15 might be _ _ _ _ _ a _ _.
No. 16 might be _ _ _ _ _ p _ _.
No. 17 might be _ _ _ _ _ e _ _.