CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Journalists one will force to serve in the navy (5)

4. A break had occurred with oily mixture (7)

8. Test the concert pitch? (13)

10. A question of location when we embrace the lady (5)

11. Noble listener the First Lord proves to be (4)

12. Neither excluded boys that lost halves (4)

16. The last thing to give me a go at (5)

17. Student rag due: turned a different way (13)

19. Token payment made with all seriousness (7)

20. Appropriates a new edition of Keats (5)

DOWN

1. Inheritance by the first-born meeting our requirements, RIP

(13)

2. Starts each April to have some nourishment (3)

3. On the day, Shakespeare’s Kate was astute (6)

4. Man upset date with temperature raised (6)

5. Hang around with it in a change of role (6)

6. It isn’t safe to change one’s guard (9)

7. Birds cry out: warm homes wanted! (13)

9. Give in to right nurse perhaps and turn red (9)

13. Thus cure may be adapted to its origin (6)

14. Something unrevealed by carbon in a variety of trees (6)

15. An enemy plane used as decoy round North Dakota (6)

18. Bird, the skua, decapitated as it turns up (3)