1: Rambling tales are out of date (5)
2: Heavenly visitor to arrive on time (5)
3: Hints from close friends (9)
4: Short bloke quietly escaped seaweed (3)
5: Pious woman in underground hideaway (3)
9: Common thread uniting New York and half of London (5)
10: Dictator's inventory includes scuptures with missing limbs (5)
11: Man, what an avant-garde US artist! (3)
12: Sounds like everything: a bore (3)