After miles, find me turning red (6)
Not thinking, the French captain misses her (9)
Shade has a ten-pound ring? (8)
Will not leave, nor... (4)
...even begin to sing music--folk (6)
Riding cap is a small orange cap (8)
Stand up or sit down on! (5)
One of them is a little obscure--it's in Webster's Second New International Dictionary, but it does turn up on a web search on Google, at least. (Once, in a quote from a cookbook from 1947, but it does turn up.)
Note: for this puzzle, you'll definitely want to check your answer by going to http://www.mit.edu/~tahnan/puzzles/(put answer here).html since there are a few dead ends here.