'Project A' Teaser

First set of clues

1.________ is  2.________ on  3.________ , a  4.________ of  5.________ ,  6.________ a  7.________  8.________  9.________  over the  10.________  11.________ ,  12.________  see some  13.________ .

Cryptic Clues
1. An Audi R8 car for me  (4)
. . . That's too hard (on the pocket) so now its a 2004 Proton for me  (4)
2. Said twice before gone soft or hard (5)
3. Evens out after hippo fall (1,4)
4. Hold one in before anally disembowelled on vacation (7)
5. A reassessed fee limit for guarantee period (1,8)
6. Stealing? Thanks top man (6)
7. Pine log around first Noel (4)
8. Initially Heidi and Ursula loved drag (4)
9. Stairway to a landing (6)
10. Tail can't stir up this water (8)
11. A new canoe to go with 10 (5)
12. Possibly Brian, James or Theresa exist (5)
13. Versatile adaptable people (9)

Fit the answers to the cryptic clues into the cloze passage above.
The clues all follow the standard cryptic crossword structure.
Each clue contains two ways of arriving at the answer: a definition and some wordplay.
The definition is always at the start or the end of the clue (occasionally the whole clue) and never in the middle.