Possible Clues:

• Replacement for analogue
• Word that can bring the ends of the starred answers up to date
• Instruction to Alan on how to create trench like a finger?
• Like computer giving gardening advice to a novice?
• Of fingers or arithmetical figures
• Like modern gadgets? Like everything, almost!
• Modern type of communication — a student needs first to understand it
• Like some computers? Very nearly like the whole lot!
• Understand one story mostly showing numerical information
• Like many newspaper subscriptions, nowadays