1 Method of killing a cleric thrice failed (8,5)
2 Intense, avant-garde novelist binned first part of script (7)
3 Small family film (4)
4 Warden called the Queen (6)
5 Bloom's put the edge into plain speaking (8)
6 Start's put back for seven planes (5)
7 Belter's strapping frame mentioned by Spooner (7,6)
12 Elton covers rock singer is to revive (8)
15 Worship solid ground that is outside (7)
16 Removing hair growth (6)
18 In the company of a thousand working for good (5)
20 Wailing, perhaps, with everyone? (4)