Quick crossword No 177

Across

1. Gamebird is in the pan as cooked (8)
2. Even Alfred returns before time (4)
3. Pale-faced like female? (5)
4. Transport with people half removed in crush (7)
5. Silence as I tuck into bananas after a bit of pie (3,1,4,2,2)
6. Writer starts to take home two gold pens (6)
7. Kevin gets confused by small utensils (6)
8. Going first? (12)
9. Cost provided by former Vice President, we hear (7)
10. Northern house with often dingy toilet (5)
11. At last get to buy sons fun things (4)
12. Chicken to follow drink (8)

Down

1. Fruit two people picked up (4)
2. Finish playing the sax you picked up (7)
3. Islanders are persons again displaced (12)
4. Idea for movement with different opening (6)
5. Initially look up plant identifying new flower (5)
6. Paper coming from birch, say, as it is processed inside (8)
7. Law rejected before monarch's approval and support (7,5)
8. Most content with rewritten epitaphs (8)
9. Article in roman house is plain (7)
10. Note: reheat contents up to this date (6)
11. Initially Margaret Thatcher on the radio is clear (5)
12. Bit of water polo rescheduled (4)