1: Acid destroyed brace (5)

4: Spinner step (3)

6: Vegetable has red cap (5)

7: Attempt test (3)

8: Healer making solemn statement about upcoming writers (9)

10: Provoke Church of Scotland's absent leader (3)

12: Demonstrated the way in which to keep poles apart (5)

13: Bounder beheaded by slippery swimmer (3)

14: Vegetable factory? (5)

2: Big Bird and Ernie auditioning after Sesame Street ends (5)

3: Making Athenian weaver drink an informal toast (7,2)

4: Abridged fibre project (3)

5: A monster making some angry phone-calls (7)

6: Tiresome platitude from dim bore (7)

9: Figaro manufactures some scent (5)

11: Short bloke quietly escaped seaweed (3)