Late but no one cares (9)
I believe the answer is:
unmourned
'late but no one cares' is the definition.
(dead ie 'late' but not mourned)
'one cares' is the wordplay.
'one' becomes 'un' (northern English dialect form of 'one').
'cares' becomes 'mourned' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'un'+'mourned'='UNMOURNED'
(Another definition for unmourned that I've seen is " not missed".)
I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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