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

6: Fiber extracted from thistles (5)

8: Reportedly is nostalgic for wife (3)

9: This is truncated, or the end's off (9)

11: Frost to cover the cake (3)

12: We turned up with endless Irish pitchers (5)

13: Mum gets customers some guns (7)

1: Lion's leader publicizes dens (5)

3: Open present yonder (4,5)

4: Explosive device held by one failed candidate (7)

5: Nightwear and jersey top added in afterthought (3)

7: He wrote about life in the woods. You read mostly inside (7)

10: 500 = 100 + 0 - that's entertainment! (5)

11: Doctrine for some Kiwis makes sense (3)