1: Hit for designer Vera, reportedly (5)

4: And not in town, ordinarily (3)

6: Language making a comeback in modern Italy (5)

7: Greek characters suggest dawn (3)

8: Tom Cruise playing an outfitter (9)

10: Anger that is constraining response (3)

12: Steno erratically scribbles (5)

14: The time before the first woman (3)

15: Rare fish goes around and around (5)

1: Short bloke discontinued hike (3)

2: Singers in a special Tosca production (5)

3: Smuggler participating in arms race? (9)

4: No one told sister (3)

5: Part of stair is erect (5)

8: Part of speech idealists rebuke (5)

9: Fiber extracted from thistles (5)

11: I am reported to leer (3)

13: Walesa still embodies how Nobel Laureates soar? (3)