CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

▶ Across

1. Poor home, built by spade without a top to it (5)

4. By means of the endlessly unpolished (7)

8. Man responsible for the book of words (13)

10. Material to be drawn from a bell, utterly reversed (5)

11. Get together with others to take a cuppa on November 5th (4)

12. Masonry support, one for each that gets around it (4)

16. A funeral party is not for the unconscious (5)

17. One to study flight might make lions right, too (13)

19. Infirm stranger departs on last ferry (7)

20. Want to bet? He'll accept that! (5) ▶ Down 1. Where driving is concerned, space for repair? (4,2,3,4)

2. Sort of curve Con has left will annoy one (3)

3. Place officer back at tea-break (6)

4. Arose with a broken leg for the fastening (6)

5. One concerned with books will be one to put proof right (6)

6. Sad to say, any pupil can be upset with Hydrogen (9)

7. Bar breaks in an hour, stream changes, he looks for port dues (7-6)

9. Where service man is put, asserted to hold particle (9)

13. Engagement of Abel perhaps, with race in the centre (6)

14. Like a skit, it takes a perch to pay out (6)

15. Short rope duly given up, partly to banish one (6)

18. Its rarely known leaders will cause distress (3)