1: A fellow's legs may be protected by these (5)

4: Animal hiding in abattoir (3)

6: Take Chair in university (3)

7: Pour dripping over tack (5)

8: Difficult newspaper or novel (4,5)

10: Gibson working for shareholders' profit (5)

12: First get a French weapon. (3)

13: Bend in the middle and wind back (3)

14: Host seems clever, off and on (5)

2: Flower festival is pointless (5)

3: Material wealth (9)

4: How to get around doing business, essentially (3)

5: Turncoat's first motive for disloyalty (7)

6: Plots get Cuban revolutionary leader in a terrible mess (7)

9: Wise men get introduction to conjuring tricks (5)

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