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My offerings are :

1. Spoon-fed (artificially fostered) chief(initial) letters of Specal Police + O (nothing) + on + FED ( Federal Agent ,member of FBI )

3. Pregnancy (state of the body - with child (issue)

4. Catalpa (a plant) (subtractive anagram) Apocalyptical (minus policy)

Thanks jolan. Looking forward to seeing the other answers.

IOM Entry
1)spoon-fed
2)?
3) condition (I think)
4)catalpa
5)nimby

Oh dear, only two right (again)
For the bible, I kept thinking OT, NT and AV, forgetting EV !

Not necessarily Jazz Girl- I toyed with pregnancy as well- you may well be right

Pregnancy looks OK (but not quite, what do you think?).
Welcome also to Mary6 (2/5), Chris (3/5) Dj (4/5)
Andy and Jazzy (well done). Here are my workings:-

1. secret police chiefs = s + p; with nothing on = s + o + o; adding, on + fed = SPOON-FED = artificially fostered (Chambers def).

2. English Version (bible) initially = EV; all there = sane; brought back = enas; yielding:- EV + enas = EVEN AS = at that very moment when (Chambers def).

3. (cryptic) = PARENTAGE

4. subtractive anag (is abandoned & working) of “apocalyptical” – “policy” = CATALPA = tree of the American and Japanese genus catalpa (and; tree = a large plant ..... Chambers)

5. cloudy = nimby; reported = heard; “but” the answer is:- NIMBY (not in my back yard) = not in one’s own locality

Hope #3 is acceptable. As I am Chief Cook (& probably, bottle-washer) this evening and must rush off. Will look in later.

PS
Chris! IOM?
I lost a very dear long-time friend there last year. An Aikido master.

It's andyc from the IOM, jolan. btw he is making a collection of clues referring to the island - I expect contributions would be welcome!

Sorry Chris. I meant Andy.

Off the noo! CU ltr

I think 3 is acceptable Jolan- although it would have been more obvious with crossing letters!

Thanks for the clues Jolan enjoyed them all. Was worried about 3 as I couldn't really parse it 100% that's when I know I've it wrong with your clues. Nowhere near with number 3. Thanks again.

Didn't get No3. didn't get anything for it, rest OK though.
yet another cracking good set from you.