1: He wrote a bit of poetry! (3)
2: The lowest point in a dire section (5)
3: A country, one said, in trouble (9)
5: Good Republican source of life-giving system for short-handed office workers (5)
8: Robin Goodfellow's ice hockey requisites (5)
9: Freeze one mug filled with tea, essentially (3,2)
11: Mr Stewart on the staff (3)
13: Child, bask by the sound (3)