First Beginners Start

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Across
  1. 6. Multiplying numbers with streamlining. (11)
  2. 7. Headless maker sounds like an area. (4)
  3. 10. Why, in Spain, were the first pesos tortillas? rxF! (6)
  4. 13. Men take into account a criminal. (10)
  5. 16. Our slum exploded, creating an ancient city. (7)
  6. 18. The starting vulture can forge. (6)
  7. 19. Ben-Hur and Barb make a pie together. (7)
  8. 21. Bud had destroyed a famous statue. (6)
Down
  1. 1. Holy stark minced newt refill, Batman! (10)
  2. 2. A clerk’s underling asks to get more, periodically. (9)
  3. 3. Ouch! The dagger twisted in torso. (7)
  4. 4. Each beginner learns again how to add to a reduction.(11)
  5. 5. Money rates are not a bore. (8)
  6. 8. Without the first of the morose, headline sounds wouldn’t exist! (5)
  7. 9. Lover boy in his prime cups India. (5)
  8. 11. The start of the first month is starting sarcastically, yet firsts aren’t always so ottoman. (9)
  9. 12. Sounds like coma, do Sabina’s strange hair. (6)
  10. 14. Teach cool disorderly stuff, like a dark delicacy. (9)
  11. 15. Cleaning sounds could make hats cower. (5)
  12. 17. Eyeless Veni transforms into a round mail spike. (4)
  13. 20. Superb USB! Oysters inside a cleaner. (6)