Another selection from a couple of puzzles in a paper during the week to keep the addicts going:

* 1. Law lord's instrument in broken down ranch (10)

* 2. Could be me and my dog (6)

* 3. Stroke getting caught with extra gear (5,5)

* 4. School isn't - repeat "isn't" - involved with academy. Right! (2,8)

* 5.The old have it at heart to be upset (8)

* 6. Waterproof jacket technocrat ordered (6,4)

* 7. Princes don't turn out undistinguished (11)

* 8. Gallery opening to allow circulation (6)

* 9. Gentle pulse, perhaps, before guy taking Ecstasy (9)

* 10. Weary say, with sentimentality, old hat (7)

* 11. Caught bird eating parrot? Disgrace! (7)

* 12. Hammer staple? (7)

* 13. Quietly tramps on moon (6)

Shared first letters are 1/3/11, 2/4, 6/10 and 9/13.
Shared last letters are 1/2, 3/8/9/12, 4/13, 6/7, and 10/11.
Shared firsts-lasts are 2/4-4/13, 6/10-6/7 and 7-10/11.
Loose ends are ADLV.

...and the one that got away:
* 14. Tribal leader acting as steersman, we hear (6) _t_i_a

1. Law lord's instrument in broken down ranch (10)

chancellor - law lord

cello - instrument (in containment ind.)
chanr - ranch (broken down - anag. ind.)

7. nondescript (anag. of "princes dont")

6. Trench coat (anag 'technocrat')

13. phobos (moon)
quietly=p
tramps=hobos

Three more good answers.

5.The old have it at heart to be upset (8)

agitated = upset, it + at in 'aged'

14. Attila (sounds like a tiller?)

Excellent work Treval: I think actually sounds like at tiller, but good solve!

2. setter

(you are a setter of clues and a setter is a dog. .. no reference to you )

10. tricorn

tri ="try" /to make weary/ annoy, wear down etc.
corn = sentimentality

8. Louvre - double definition

Spot on Lady S and Jema!

3. Stroke getting caught with extra gear (5,5)


Wow! Another cricket clue.

Cover Drive = stroke (in cricket)

C = caught (another cricket abbrev.)

+

overdrive (extra gear)

4. School isn't - repeat "isn't" - involved with academy. Right! (2,8)

St. Trinians = school

Anag. isnt + isnt + a(academy) + r(right)

Both correct Mr H.

9. peaceable

pulse = pea
ecstacy = e
guy (wire) = cable

peaCeABLE

And yes again!

Two left: 11 is a cryptic clue but 12 is a groaner.

11. Caught bird eating parrot? Disgrace! (7)

Cheapen

Disgrace = direct

c = caught (yet again, more cricket)
+ ape(= parrot) inside(=eating) hen(=bird)

Correct Hawkeye!

That just leaves 12. Hammer staple (7) - What sort of hammer, or perhaps Hammer what?

12. vampire

wild guess, refering to films put out by Hammer???

That's it!