Narrow-minded friend grabs choir in straits (9)
I believe the answer is:
parochial
'narrow-minded' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'friend grabs choir in straits' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
an anagram of 'choir' is 'rochi' which is located in the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for parochial that I've seen before include "Narrow in outlook" , "Having a narrow scope" , "Related to local area - narrow" , "rather restricted" .)