Possible Clues:

• Hasten to European city
• Death ensures capital is protected
• Capital S following A
• Birthplace of Socrates
• What a capital way to get at poultry!
• S following A in grease, by the sound of it
• Capital required because the name is included
• How to get at the birds with 17 down
• Hasten around foreign city
• Georgia town that's home to REM