CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

4/11

Across

1. Inflorescence turns blue around beginning of May (5)

4. Talk about a record naval craft in America (7)

8. He aggravates one’s distress by giving tasks to a dummy (4,9)

10. Plumed cap has turned out to be a knockout (5)

11. Adjustable stop for lens one has in one’s eye (4)

12. What a lot it costs to make such a fiasco (4)

16. Fact of being at one with uranium needs tiny adjustment (5)

17. Member of the family and old Latin bore upset about nothing (5,8)

19. Jabbers incessantly about form treaty’s taking (7)

20. Seeing that the NEC is laid out for it (5)

Down

1. Busy jail unfit for putting it out without good cause (13)

2. Pout if it shows an athlete’s number (3)

3. Place at top of tower for a devastator (6)

4. Head of college faculty takes me in to lower my dignity (6)

5. Lost no opportunity to shoot from base (6)

6. Say more than anybody else, being extreme (9)

7. It weighs what is bound to settle the account (6,7)

9. Vest for a woman’s front? (9)

13. Loving hold may be misclued, the end being repeated (6)

14. Sundry seekers after pearls (6)

15. It’s a way of getting around cardiopulmonary technique (6)

18. Particle one has when number is up (3)