CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

2. Weapons used by Burmese, for example, to free St Paul (9) 8. Claude Monet’s evil spirit? (5) 9. Add in clue to catch deputy head (7) 10. Sorry to see a game get extremely idiotic (10) 12. Even Lennon music can cause boredom (5) 14. New to the job and a little envious? (5) 15. Unattractive squabbles from litigants (10) 18. Cockney’s fourth, it should be said, is a sacrifice (7) 19. Heard Neil may do this in church (5) 20. Atomic clouds lead to fungi (9)

DOWN

1. Fussed unnecessarily and turned it into dinner (4,1,4,2,2) 2. Sort of interest shown in a prison enclosure (8) 3. Dance in tartan gown (5) 4. New start for crime. Sinister leader (5,8) 5. Lacking a substitute, I go in and get a thrashing (7) 6. Self-satisfied about receding gums (4) 7. Faint remedy in redesigning small singlets (8,5) 11. One type of senseless suffering (8) 13. Complaint I will get on Scottish lake (7) 16. In Vladivostok, you can find oriental capital (5) 17. Baby carriage for soft sheep (4)