CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

1. Deservedly gets an audience with the Poles (5)

4. As unruly as Wells may have been (7) 8. Thoughtful way to study the mould when about four (13)

10. It may be a bay at home that's rented out (5)

11. One makes it unprofitably (4)

12. To head the bill one would begin on time (4)

16. Be at cross purposes to return one (5) 17. The shortest point-joiners to be got from a ruler? (8,5)

19. Given a quick send-off to be thus sent on one's way (7)

20. Mariner who loses one sails around (5)

Down

1. Those like Houdini who get out of laces to gossip (13)

2. Print the duration of a play's performance (3)

3. This railway, miniature as it is, is picturesque (6)

4. A spell of reform for such extensions of the collar (6)

5. Riches for which the law is under revision (6)

6. Yet lend half-a-dozen a mixture, seemingly (9)

7. Some crooked girls from Dresden maybe (13)

9. Learned argument might rid Scouse of it (9)

13. A bit of time needed for a full stop (6) 14. The way a brick-carrier is first encountered (6)

15. Plays for time as the engine stops (6) 18. Odour soundly colours this with nothing scored (3)