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

6: Draw the knot (3)

7: Robe's eyelet exposes more than fat (5)

8: Poor man's right to make powerless (9)

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

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

14: They are instrumental in petty swindles (7)

1: Perform part of play (3)

2: Whip stuff with energy (5)

3: This is truncated, or the end's off (9)

4: Pass mould (3)

5: Good Republican source of life-giving system for short-handed office workers (5)

8: Rapidity with which heat's dissipated (5)

9: Perfect conviction ends trial (5)

11: Inactive side (3)

13: Greek characters suggest dawn (3)