Clues
Across
- 1 Keep out of sight - but caught going out for good cake (7)
- 5 Anger management courses with content that could go viral (4)
- 7 Feathers cause fruit to ripen (7)
- 10 Bronze pedestal’s central section (3)
- 11 Ready to receive raw deal from drive-through service (3, 4)
- 12 Backing singer from Scotland? (4)
- 13 They count and recount (7)
Down
- 1 Paint around edges of pottery, primarily Chinese imitator (7)
- 2 Sadly learnt to accept uniform’s rather drab (7)
- 3 Give out tea slips in support of dub revolution (7)
- 4 Left cheese out for vampires? (7)
- 6 What’s laid on the breakfast table? (4)
- 8 Usher in heavy metal star (4)
- 9 Case of mildew covering a dark opening (3)
Setter’s notes
I hope you had fun with this one — that really is the entire point. Getting stuck along the way is all part of it.
Across
- 1 “Keep out of sight” = CONCEAL, with “caught” = C going out for “good” = G — CONGEAL, “cake”.
- 5 Hidden (“courses with content”) in “anGER Management” — GERM.
- 7 “Fruit” = PLUM + “to ripen” = AGE — PLUMAGE.
- 10 “Pedestal” = STAND, and its central section is TAN — “bronze”.
- 11 An anagram of RAW, inside “ready” = CASH — CAR WASH.
- 12 Hidden reversed (“backing”) in “scOTLAnd” — ALTO.
- 13 Double definition: those who count (bank tellers) and those who recount (storytellers) — TELLERS.
Down
- 1 “Paint” = COAT, around the edges of “PotterY” = PY + the first letter of “Chinese” = C — COPYCAT.
- 2 An anagram (“sadly”) of LEARNT, accepting “uniform” = U — NEUTRAL.
- 3 “Dub” = NAME, reversed (“revolution”), on top of an anagram (“slips”) of TEA — EMANATE.
- 4 “Left” = L + an anagram (“out”) of CHEESE — LEECHES.
- 6 Cryptic definition: what hens lay, and what you put on the breakfast table — EGGS.
- 8 Triple definition: usher (to lead in), heavy metal, and star (to take the lead) — LEAD.
- 9 The case (outer letters) of “MildeW”, covering A — MAW.