Bigger and harder

Is it just me, or is this weather starting to get a bit frightening? Chained to a radiator, life on hold, what else can a guy do but concoct another cryptic crossword especially for Lucy…

crossword

CLUES

ACROSS
1 Remote toytown worry: a dumb void built (6,8)
7 Got a fountain pen? Lord, that’s old hat! (9,6)
8 Top class? Not in France. Here it’s like one in 5 (5)
9 Another 2 on ledger (5)
12 Random stab: all Cardiff’s foundations are rubbish (7)
13 Same decrepit prize field (4)
14 4 at last to wear award (4)
16 Abel was heroic and sophisticated, bar none (7)
17 Hand over nothing, dude. Period. (5)
18 Ironing, keen for company (5)
20 Re toilet sex case: kinky staples in Gabalfa (9,6)
21 Heard I hesitated at 6? No bull, was half cut by a car park! (8,6)

DOWN
1 In painful labour, twin boys due (7,7)
2 For patients, deliverance when no-one around (8)
3 From good street (4)
4 Say pharmacists were murderers… (10)
5 Nero at his fiddle, holding court (5)
6 Behead the ref! Right, sorted out! (Alien Grangetown way) (8,6)
10 Waters 100 floppy pansies in rescue operation (7,3)
11 Funny noise is no laughing matter? (5)
15 Shops late, gave no reason (8)
17 Architecture in brief: dumb cowards skipping and backsliding (1,1,1,1,1)
19 Tongues pussy in annexe 17D (4)