1: What's left when you burn the tree (3)
3: Vagrant going over a little river to a foreign country (5)
5: Start reducing salt? (3)
6: Road leading into dismal swamp (5)
8: Somehow it is clear and practical (9)
10: Proficient in arithmetic, starting with short division (5)
11: Sort of uninitiated cheat (3)
12: Language making a comeback in modern Italy (5)
13: Call for help oddly stops (3)