1: Backsliding, Pa reels drunkenly (7)

6: Encourage horse led with direction. (3)

7: Rambling tales are out of date (5)

8: Giant fish, note, approaches Italian city (not capital) (9)

10: Gag about alien in Royal Childrens Hospital (5)

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

12: Adult party to entertain disheartened women (5-2)

2: Carries most of sea-bird back. (3)

3: Is it a chop that's nutty or a nut that's chopped? (9)

4: Demand payment? Just so! (5)

5: Too old for love - a woman, for example, rejected (7)

6: Otherwise angered by a fencers call (2,5)

9: Put a new value on what secret agent is hiding (5)

11: Control escape (3)