2: Find out scout (3)

4: How to get around doing business, essentially (3)

6: Sixpence for big cheese? (1.1.1.)

7: Startled, grabs sailor (3)

8: Smuggler participating in arms race? (9)

9: Odds of niece being born (3)

10: Small piece of fish (3)

11: One may be a very long time (3)

12: Call initially communicates real yearning (3)

1: The stagecoach industry (9)

2: Number observed with contest entry (9)

3: Chatter about some pay-back (3)

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

5: Form of address valued for the auditor taken unawares (9)

10: Bespectacled dwarf bringing nothing to capital (3)