1: Strap, though short, has hanger's heart (5)

4: Abridged fibre project (3)

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

7: Just conservative (5)

8: State control for Romanians (3,6)

11: True side (5)

13: Pass mould (3)

14: Former name for joint audition (3)

15: At hand no competent help (5)

1: Stories least translated (5)

2: Algerian city has grand musical instrument (5)

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

4: Spinner step (3)

5: Worthless even when recycled (3)

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

10: A Gore follows a Ryan (5)

11: Managed in lower Antwerp (3)

12: Take a turn or a thousand dollars (3)