Across
- 3. Initially, battery French hens output in English, a problem (4)
- 5. Closure found in geese a-laying (4)
- 7. Victim beheading deters drummers? (9)
- 8. Turtle shell, dove tail, basic fashion (3)
- 10. Missing the first two pipers piping, are inside needing a pee, getting nervous? (10)
Down
- 1. Upset with self, low for calling birds? (4, 7)
- 2. Maids milked herd for research and development, on record (4)
- 4. Ladies dancing left the shore (6)
- 6. Prim and proper, second last - sounds like seven swan? (5)
- 9. Lord a-leaping into petrol every second (4)
- 11. Pear tree, oddly, can contain partridge (4)
- 12. Shapingrgold!? (5)