1: African leader reversed stance on fabled writer (5)
2: Children nicely holding back secret (5)
3: Smuggler participating in arms race? (9)
4: at peoples uptown bar for starters? (3)
5: Without it, set call for recompense (3)
9: In Howard's End - one has a passage here from Forster (5)
10: Crew had dinner, we hear (5)
11: What's left when you burn the tree (3)
12: Frost to cover the cake (3)