1: It may be used in candy or brought back in taxi (5)

4: Animal hiding in abattoir (3)

6: Note vehicle in picture puzzle (5)

7: Odds of niece being born (3)

8: Call to drink like feeding ducks? (7,2)

10: Direct object (3)

12: Stir outspoken 3-down resident, usually (5)

14: Uninitiated stoop to finish (3)

15: Bishop has support from this criminal (5)

1: See, you are a cad. (3)

2: Mechanical worker pushing start button in the depths of the plant (5)

3: See one store walled by brick, mostly (9)

4: Throw out faulty nib (3)

5: Belgian port getting rid of an idiot (5)

8: Introduction to book by mere poet (5)

9: Authority, for example (sic) (3-2)

11: Backblock not all there (3)

13: Telekinesis pinches Albanian coin (3)