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)