"Nonsense!" we wrote back to the cobbler. (5) Besides the dominie, the other learned man in a Scottish village. (5) (May require specialised knowledge, such as one of Neil Innes' novels.)
one consists of just the definition, one is an anagram, one is an embedding, one subtracts a letter from a word, one uses initial letters, and three break the word down and clue its components.
[btw Raak - enjoyed the multiclue] Yes, MF, FINANCÉ [Intended = FIANCÉ, holding the last letter of redistribution = N,] fits the definition, but I can't help feeling I've overcooked it ...
[rab]Spot on; it's an anagram but with an M (my first) removed - it would have been harder (but still I think acceptable) to have not included the "- and only very rarely" - the definition then being the "Uncommon" which doubled up as part of the anagram.