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

3: Part of speech idealists rebuke (5)

6: Part of stair is erect (5)

7: Fiction position (3)

8: Cad mad about Dutch port (9)

11: 4-down Arias hit high note in some of the lungs (3,3)

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

14: Genteel Egyptian penning mournful poem (5)

15: Later round without an opponent (3)

1: One who heals despicable person on TV hospital program (5)

2: One final, huge Greek goddess (3)

3: Confined bear without a trade (9)

4: I had been at the front, and retired (5)

5: Sheep to start wallowing in ease (3)

9: Short time for the Irish (5)

10: Boy gripping top of pine tree (5)

11: Consumed, beginning at the end (3)

13: Arcking shot from Bill O'Brien (3)