Comrade keeps a travelling choir confined? (9)
I believe the answer is:
parochial
'confined?' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'comrade keeps a travelling choir' is the wordplay.
'comrade' becomes 'pal' (a pal is a friend).
'keeps' indicates putting letters inside.
'travelling' is an anagram indicator.
'choir' anagrammed gives 'rochi'.
'a'+'rochi'='arochi'
'pal' placed around 'arochi' is 'PAROCHIAL'.
(Other definitions for parochial that I've seen before include "Having a narrow scope" , "Narrow in outlook" , "Related to local area - narrow" , "rather restricted" .)