2: Difficult newspaper or novel (4,5)
3: It's exciting, for example, holding a tongue (7)
4: Good Republican source of life-giving system for short-handed office workers (5)
6: Mortified humans - fifty per cent felt great pity (7)
8: Disturb earth at centre (29 for your love?) (5)
11: Mediterranean leaves unfashionable coins? (3)