1: Note vehicle in picture puzzle (5)

4: Its a firm, small lettuce (3)

6: Be amusing for Matilda (7)

7: English painter whose work is arresting ... (9)

9: Furies, in ancient Greece or Ireland? Certainly! (7)

11: Fathers start to applaud, in afterthought (3)

12: All the performers express disapproval about it (5)

2: Tender command (3)

3: Brief inclination to include likely candidates (5,4)

4: Notable piece of animation by English bishop (5)

5: A child toils to produce poems (7)

6: Eat or drink after the dollar improves (5,2)

8: Massages were reported to be essential elements. (5)

10: However, you expect trouble at first (3)