1: and 15 Novel alternative excised from huge spits (5,12)

3: A representative may be a scamp (3)

5: Pitchers were transported south (5)

7: Pronounced ability to smell negative votes (3)

8: Giant fish, note, approaches Italian city (not capital) (9)

10: Tender command (3)

11: Publication for children (5)

12: Vet theatre opening 8-down (3)

13: Roman date and time that is in Latin (2,3)

1: Good Republican source of life-giving system for short-handed office workers (5)

2: Conductor taking opera to Northern Ireland twice (9)

3: Fires possibly singe it (7)

4: Fathers start to applaud, in afterthought (3)

6: This would make me a lord (7)

9: Leaders actually dont expect people to be skillful (5)

10: Throw out faulty nib (3)