1: Sounds like a bright child (3).
2: Alternative to following performance needed when a substitution is required. (5)
3: A country, one said, in trouble (9)
4: Concealed hot part of psyche (3)
5: Put a new value on what secret agent is hiding (5)
8: Scheme conclusion for jet set (5)
9: Freeze one mug filled with tea, essentially (3,2)
11: Backblock not all there (3)
13: Sister gets nothing, we hear (3)