Should be no problems with this lot...

-1. Who wrote The Crucible?
-2. What is the name of both a Texan resort and seaport, and a college at both Oxford and Cambridge universities?
-3. Who, on their deathbed, allegedly said "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go". (Sometimes paraphrased as "Either this wallpaper goes or I do)"
-4. Which astronomer discovered the plant Uranus?
-5. Becky Sharpe is a character in which novel?
-6. In the metric system, what prefix denotes one-tenth?
-7. Who was prime minister of Israel from 1969 to 1974?
-8. What is the Yiddish word for shameless audacity?
-9. At the Alamo, the Texan defenders were commanded by Colonel Jim Bowie and which other man?
-10. The cross between a grapefruit and a tangerine has two names, one of which is a trade-name. What are they?
-11. What Irishman became the first person to win both a Nobel prize and an Oscar?
-12. Who is this?

12. Lynyrd Skynyrd

5. Vanity Fair

7. Golda Meir

8. chutzpah

We're off and running, ladies!

(Or in my case, arthritically limping)

1. Arthur Miller

Yes, manxman!

10. tangelo I know, but not the other

Deserves half a cigar...

6. deci

Or half a mandarin perhaps ...

3. Oscar Wilde

4. William Herschel

Three for the ladies!

While you're on a crossword roll flotsam, you could claim the other half of the cigar with this:
Tangelo is very unatrractive, we hear (4)

Ooh, Ooh, Ooh, I know that answer but don't know if I should post it?

9. Colonel Travis

ugly??

2. Corpus Christi

SD, Cheryl - both good!

oldbroad - flotsam is close, can you put him right?

ugli

Indeedy!

11. George Bernard Shaw

The antipodean sweeper-upper strikes again!