Cryptic crossword
ACROSS 1. Grieved for the pen I’d broken (5) 4. Alternatively appears in the departments one sends back home (7)
8. How one used a written promise to be dry (4,3,6) 10. In order to rag us, use a sweetener (5)
11. One of a lifting pair in secret Asian society (4) 12. What this clue is not is depressed (4) 16. Thunder-god going north: see the point? (5)
17. If it is, it can’t be put out of mind (13)
19. This range shows the scope of the cook (7) 20. An accommodating place has a lot he can sort out (5)
DOWN
1. Outstrips the dandy as one relegates responsibility (6,3,4) 2. How the old horse will keep on at one (3)
3. Hate to die without one trial (6)
4. Dig in the channel, or coat it (6)
5. It is mean for a friend to attempt it (6)
6. They may blow hot and cold about radio arts (9)
7. Circle on column will take one’s directions (8,5)
9. Gets to be corpulent, for taunts to be made of it (4,2,3)
13. It is taken from the charts for use in the laundry (6)
14. Rule that Queen Victoria has gone wrong (6)
15. A bit of a tune one may grasp hold of (6)
18. Wager the second letter one got from Greece wasn’t finished (3)