1: Not blunt instrument - it has point on front (5)

3: I shall be sick! (3)

5: Republican badly ires one on the way up (5)

7: Cook small fish. (3)

8: Smuggler participating in arms race? (9)

10: Neil lost a letter and ended up with nothing (3)

11: Uncharacteristically, Dickenson pens uplifting romantic ballad (5)

12: Greek characters suggest dawn (3)

13: Belated top-and-tailing to gladden one's heart (5)

1: Quiet floor decoration is a sign of indifference (5)

2: Animal or container in tree (9)

3: Imaginary childhood? (7)

4: Non-clerical song (3)

6: Records that could be hits (7)

9: April keeps providing material for a poet (5)

10: No one told sister (3)