1: Drawing, for example, a bit of a cartoon (3)

3: Something useful - like a matching collection? (5)

6: Grass present round container (7)

7: A muskmelon or cola nut pa sliced (9)

9: Charged a couple of hundred, getting exploited (7)

11: Two articles in French about Diamonds and Big Dipper (5)

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

1: What's left when you burn the tree (3)

2: I turn, lost, in Italian city (5)

3: Woman losing head after another fall (9)

4: Hear Native American appeal (3)

5: Flower, large one, set up outside (5)

7: Wicker basket a North American Indian left (5)

8: Headless rodent left by bird (5)

9: Help found in Adelaide. (3)

10: Drongo lacks even a pet (3)