1: Start reducing salt? (3)

3: Foreign entry authorization gains time for US program abroad (5)

5: Having red nose, turned back (7)

7: Green coat for Italian composer and Spanish painter (9)

9: Song about death for lover of Theseus (7)

11: Irish playwright livin soundly (5)

12: How to get around doing business, essentially (3)

1: Dozens of sprites seen on Tuesday and Wednesday initially (7)

2: Bloody bored inside (3)

3: Maid Marian - half American (9)

4: Smudge reams of misprints (5)

6: Have sheriff's helpers joined Nazi police (7)

8: Come to Korea - Chinese part (5)

10: Small piece of fish (3)