1: 4-down Arias hit high note in some of the lungs (3,3)

3: Ball mislaid? Caned (5)

6: Infection leads from partly uncooked steak (3)

7: Wives' strange ideas (5)

8: Form of address valued for the auditor taken unawares (9)

10: Weird eastern lake (5)

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

14: Just conservative (5)

15: Looks like an eyesore, sounds like an eyesore (3)

1: Height is equal to three-fifths of the first one (3)

2: Part of stair is erect (5)

3: Bird and man going different ways (9)

4: Odds of niece being born (3)

5: Same as Edward, partly comforted (5)

8: Navigate by terse directions (5)

9: Casts off shacks (5)

11: Fix the oil platform ... (3)

13: Anyway - no! (3)