1: Caress one grand puzzlemaster (5)

4: Feel sick from crack? (3)

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

7: Choose to take the top off (3)

8: Cost very little when companion partied wildly outside (4,5)

11: Taverns quoted cool clique (3)

12: Woman on Swiss shore (5)

14: And not in town, ordinarily (3)

15: War or piecemeal missile (5)

1: Idler, forced to exercise, could be this! (5)

2: The end, you say? On the contrary! (3)

3: I bang rock, disturbing snake (4,5)

4: A garden ornament makes men go mad (5)

5: God, transforming first day into last night, was received (3)

9: Part of stair is erect (5)

10: Listening to playwright's baloney (5)

11: In no state to contain a pregnant virgin? (3)

13: Song is a gas (3)