1: Carries most of sea-bird back. (3)

3: Wise men get introduction to conjuring tricks (5)

6: Guarantee limit (5)

7: Take a turn or a thousand dollars (3)

8: Run up a womans garment as a temporary expedient (9)

11: Trap with hands? (3)

13: Faith in Osiris, lamentably (5)

14: Principle unaffected by revolution (5)

15: Cull out from top ten (3)

1: Fill-in professional almost rewrote the column (5)

2: Classic gibberish (5)

3: Make the move its only temporary (9)

4: Feel sick from crack? (3)

5: A hint for the snooker champ? (3)

9: ... but go oil crazy in snow house (5)

10: Attract fill-in worker by end of August (5)

11: God, transforming first day into last night, was received (3)

12: Sister gets nothing, we hear (3)