answers are christian names

[nurse1967]

1. lies untidily in a drawer marked..............s (5)
2. 18th century lady's overcoat for riding (6)
3. slightly turbulent Essex river (5)
4. a guillemot in Norfolk (6)
5. waste produced from shoddy (5)
6. one of a late 1960's pop group (6)
7. In Scotland, the neck of an animal a garment or a golf club (5)
8. avoiding direct confrontation (6)
9. an earthbound star, according to Chaucer (5)
10. archaicly foreign (9)
11. play the memory game (3)
12. loose overcoat worn by 19th century working classes (8)
13. used to be full of interest (5)

[jivebunny]

No 3 could be Brian - anagram of river "Brain"

No 13 could be Tessa - former tax free savings scheme

[Lesisblue]

6. Herman (Hermans Hermits).

[crofter]

No 7 could be Craig - used in Scotland to mean "crag"  (neck). I have no idea of any link to "garment" or "golf club".

Notice the poor take-up of your challenge! One important quality of a quiz is that the questions need to be solvable - clever (yes) but not just obscure!