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Thanks Jolan, for these. Have been lucky enough to be around for a few Tuesdays lately and you have enlivened them no end.
AB

Here is my stab at the 5.

1. Instinctive tendency to relocate and boil tea urn (6,6)- Second Nature?
(relocate – move as in “second” a motion and anagram of “tea urn” – nature: second nature - instinctive)

2. Dial at one’s ease? (4-4)- Laid back?
(“Dial” is “laid” back. Laid back is at one’s ease)

3. Stamp out late mariposa, uncontrollably growing down under? (7) - Olearia?
(“late mariposa” with “stamp” omitted is anagram of olearia, a plant which grows in Australia and New Zealand)

4. Reminder to catch a type of crocodile (3) – Cue?
(“to catch” is to hear, indicating a homophone. Cue sounds like “queue” which is a form of crocodile, as in “crocodile”, a line of people. Cue is a reminder.)

5. Traditional North American getting on with family (3-4)- Old-line?
Getting on – old + line – family gives “old-line”, traditional in USA and Canada)

My effort, 1&4 I haven't really fully solved so dodgy answers from me:

1)innate nature
2)laid-back
3)olearia
4)tag
5)old-line

1- SECOND NATURE
2- LAID-BACK
3- OLEARIA
4- CUE?
5- OLD-LINE

second nature, ah! Blast.

Only the two to offer:
2. laid-back
3. Olearia

Thanks jolan for the fun. j

1) SECOND NATURE - Instinctive tendency..SECOND (relocate) NATURE (anag boil TEA URN

2) LAID BACK - At one's ease...DIAL (Laid back)

3) OLEARIA - Australian Shrub (growing down under)...anag(uncontrollably) LATE MARIPOSA less (out) STAMP

4) CUE - Reminder .. 'Catch' (sounds like) QUEUE -Crocodile/line/file

5) OLD LINE- Traditional..OLD (getting on. LINE (N American)

I'd convinced myself that 2 was RING-BACK (it saves you having to dial again, at least!)
5 I thought the non-PC "red-skin", though I couldn't explain the "reds" bit.
Thanks for a challenging set of clues, jolan. I should have looked for the subtractive anagram!

Thanks Jolan.
Igot #2 ok but I also thought #5 was redskin. I was sure #4 was cue but the catch bit caught me out again.
BTW We have lots of olearias down here on the south coast.

Oh - I had guessed SECOND NATURE, but I'm still not sure why "relocate" is "second". Is it in the sense "seconded to"?