CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

▶ Across 1. Take, as one shouldn't, a little bit for cooking (5)

4. Note, as endless ruse, what pertains to the tummy (7)

8. Systematic questioning of a query in print (13)

10. Choose top removal to choose in preference (5)

11. What's in the window, Father? One that's lost the ring! (4)

12. Powder used in hospital, certainly (4) 16. When it's repeated it's the system of hire-purchase (5)

17. Delivery experts (13)

19. Lumbers one with seats for jodhpurs? (7)

20. Depend upon being quietly enheartened by the comeback (5) ▶ Down 1. Male characters female, in the main (9,4) 2. It's the head one may take a spanner to (3)

3. Had the right to be included, end without end, to set solid (6)

4. There's nothing in match non-u Gus holds with these on! (6)

5. Different approaches to same story last achievable with Poles (6)

6. Check condition to put back in office (9) 7. In cups, coy soul is tormented in an outstanding way (13)

9. Potted version of a hundred on five times that : needs changing (9)

13. Isn't fit to provide an international water supply? (6)

14. Rave about return of the Saint one manages not to encounter (6)

15. He provides provisions (6) 18. Something with bite, like pepper initially (3)