Cryptic crossword No 2,844

Across

1. Annually write about deep Anglo-French connection, for example (7,6)
2. Deed by widow oddly absent just before Watson's end leads to law suit (6)
3. "Let wine breathe", John Lennon (perhaps) (7)
4. Consigliere now with mask (7)
5. Victorian novel lay as instructed, all over the place (1,5,2,7)
6. Call a few heard by a place of battle? (7)
7. Type of gas leads to benign reason for death (7,6)
8. Sherlock's customers' claim in small courts (7)
9. What Sherlock Holmes tried to do, and to whom he tried to do it? (6,9)
10. Kitchen feature kept by bourgeois landlords (6)

Down

1. At least Northern Spanish cheer ship (2,4)
2. Vicar goes topless creating offence (5)
3. "Surrounded by the extremes of bestiality, Sherlock's heart was filled with the beginnings of innate selfless kindness and with energy" (7)
4. Why UFO returns to crazy day (6,4,5)
5. Hint from prisoner hiding some money (8)
6. Heading in the right direction, operate nicely at first then swear about nothing (2,6)
7. Resume course content before six then cook tea (10,5)
8. In the heart of familiar European surroundings (6)
9. Lies about books becoming gifts (7)
10. Wayward seducer withdrawn from action (7)
11. Try changing and put new leader in randomly selected oppressive regime (7)
12. Bit of spatula theatrics used by Turner (5)