Clue help

[hankir]

Two clues:

1. Blood, having met belt, spread on trousers, widening (12)


2. Dull, backward, low-bred, possibly? No, having a few intellectual pretensions (10)

[Mamyalynne]

1 Bell bottomed

[Captain2]

2 Middlebrow (Dull = DIM - BACKWARDS + anagram of LOWBRED)

[hankir]

Thanks. I should have seen the anagram.

[hankir]

Thank you, Captain2. My previous reply was to thank mamyalynne.

I thank both of you.