1: Principal on top of leafy tree (5)

4: Turn on an ex-Portuguese colony (3)

6: Equips for attacks (4)

7: An Indian princess fled east repeatedly (5)

8: Material wealth (9)

11: Father's into whips and chains, a violent action (5)

13: Throw out faulty nib (3)

14: Root for mounting might (3)

15: Exhausted writer found in street (5)

1: Lion's leader publicizes dens (5)

2: Boxer Max returned, holding heroin, for treatment (5)

3: Difficult newspaper or novel (4,5)

4: Trap with hands? (3)

5: Number One in facetiousness (3)

9: There is no commoner old coin (5)

10: German painter in a southern state (5)

11: Looks like an eyesore, sounds like an eyesore (3)

12: Direct object (3)