Farming

[Bernie]

9a Less than usual (3)?o?
11d. Conducts 12a for USA? (3)?i? (Answer to 12a is Espionage)
6d.. Discerning (6)n?s?t?


Many thanks

[sandyRoe]

11 CIA?

[dannyk13]

11d.CIA

[fiction-factory]

low?

[fiction-factory]

astute if two wrong?

[scorpiojo]

Astute if you've gone wrong somewhere?

[dannyk13]

6d.Astute?

[Bernie]

1a. Clue Sympathy (13) I have commiseration. So I figure it wouldn't end in an 'a'. I have just found a word nasute which I think is discerning of smell?

[fiction-factory]

nasute is a termite in my dictionary but apparently I choose to us ethe wrong dictionary (joke for Naomi if she's ventured into crosswords thinking it said cross swords); but this site seems to back up the discerning meaning https://www.wordnik.com/words/nasute