Here is/are a clutch for you to hatch from a paper before we went on holiday:
* 1. I can't remember cinema as "flicks" (8)
* 2. Prevent a check pinning rook (5)
* 3. Film lead in Pink Panther? Treat suspiciously (3,6,4)
* 4. Cartoonist husband in the bar, soon worse for wear (5,8)
* 5. In the course of an illness, almost over, trouble a religious head (5,4)
* 6. Gift tied up at resort (8)
* 7. Welfare state restricting iron tablets at first (6)
* 8. A job accompanying the French missionary (7)
* 9. Monument not cheap to be rebuilt (8)
* 10. A sign of faith? (4,2,5)
* 11. Phone - who invented it? Sound familiar? (4,1,4)
* 12. Daily, one's mother exudes compelling charm (8)
* 13. Holds up favourite? There's a piece of news (7)
Shared first letters are 1/2/6
/8, 7/10/13 and 9/12.
(corrected)Shared last letters are 2/13, 5/12 and 6/8.
Shared firsts-last letters are 1/2/6/8-5/12, 3-2/13, 4-9, 5-10 and 9/12-1.
Scrambled loose ends are LNPRY.
