1: He wrote a bit of poetry! (3)

3: Delay yield (5)

5: A supporter starting to mock President Garfield's middle name (5)

6: Consumed and digested tea (3)

7: Mild expletive for a sea-faring people? (9)

9: Doctrine for some Kiwis makes sense (3)

10: In Howard's End - one has a passage here from Forster (5)

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

12: One final, huge Greek goddess (3)

1: Scheme conclusion for jet set (5)

2: A murder suspect, one hears? (7)

3: Curse the mother country? (9)

4: Three kernels of copper-yellow grain (3)

6: Song about death for lover of Theseus (7)

8: No spot for weather forecast before snow approaches (5)

9: I shall be sick! (3)