2: Hesitation before a certain deletion (7)

5: West's last: bottom spade, perhaps (5)

6: Sounds like a bright child (3).

7: Sycophant of knowledge, essentially, in those scoring 1600? (9)

9: Tender command (3)

10: Retro eatery has nothing covered in grease (5)

11: Ephemeral deity guards precious stone (7)

1: Biblical refugee, American flower (5)

2: Burst forth from incredibly deep rut (7)

3: Shock with exclamations while mounting horse (9)

4: One may be a very long time (3)

6: Suppressed and overturned, it's taken flight (7)

8: Deer I mistook for duck (5)

9: Later round without an opponent (3)