1: Acid destroyed brace (5)

4: Its a firm, small lettuce (3)

6: Fish in sea initially react to heat, perhaps (5)

7: Child, bask by the sound (3)

8: Country encircling one's country (9)

10: at peoples uptown bar for starters? (3)

12: Rings for the groups (5)

13: Managed in lower Antwerp (3)

14: Cathy's new boat (5)

2: Newsman Bradley accepts men, correct? (5)

3: It's on the coast of Australia - a tree discovered by science (6,3)

4: Cronkite, Bradley, and Safer's first network (3)

5: Some slippers and also shoes (7)

6: Fish for captain (7)

9: Carrying on thus, for some reason I create a sort of boom (5)

11: Throw out faulty nib (3)