The Cryptic Anti-Cross
By NoNotCar
First solve: James ✖️ a month agoAcross
1: Stopped standing up a evil force (5)
4: Rotating central ground (5)
5: Controller backs shallow dunking (3)
6: Organ at end of large carnivore (3)
7: Taking metal out of kindly animal (3)
8: Villain couple, 50, from sole right border of Genevan prayer rug? (6,9)
12: Drunkenly dining with Moe's making me sinful (10)
15: Put up a subordinate (4)
16: Imp put stuff back in egg (5)
17: Fools, it is containing a vampire! (6)
18: Repel me in terror (5)
19: Amphibian metamorphosis after 1 BC? (4)
20: Allow that man deadly flower (5)
Down
1: Sloth perhaps easily sends sloppily wrapped deal (5,6,4)
2: Pit between central protests and Warsaw footballers leading to neck injury (11)
3: Terrible horse given honours, reportedly (9)
8: Vampire maybe changing heart of a French father (6)
9: Ice ridge engineered king's death (8)
10: Exhaust myself wrapping up repeat performance (6)
11: Wants resting place recorded in penultimate letters (6)
13: Space station initially vents explosive wrapper (4)
14: Sloppy within drunken teen gal (9)
18: Obese Albert causes death (5)