Each clue contains either a pun on the answer word or the word itself in anagram form. The anagram can be a single word, a group of consecutive letters involving more than one word or a group of consecutive letters taken from a larger word.

Example: Down the hill ran a brook (4) -> Down the h(ILL R)an a brook -> rill = brook

-1. Alert even at times like this (9)
-2. Glue makes tape stick (5)
-3. Terrorism is a mistake (5)
-4. The pros were all eyes(4)
-5. Better get that heron (5)
-6. Likened to a certain garden (4)
-7. That's slow to wear out (5)
-8. Went to his tepee (4)
-9. See a way to relax (4)
-10. Fathered rising generations (5)
-11. Aid a better cause (4)
-12. Credits posted to your account (8)
-13. Climbed it and plastered the wall (10)
-14. English school of note (4)
-15. Some can spend time on the moon (8)
-16. Really grotesque narrative (8)
-17. He tells fibs alright (4)
-18. What adds to facts available (4)
-19. Crawls an inch an hour (5)
-20. That corps shows merit, General (8)

17 - ALRI ght= liar

2. TAPE Stick = paste

3. tERRORism = error - Hi Cue

Bernie

BettER GET = egret

8. wENT To....tent

1. AlerT EVEN AT TImes = attentive

12. deposits - Credits posted to your account

14. English school of note - Eton

13. anD PLASTERED = stepladder

6. Lik(ened) to a certain garden = Eden

7. Lasts (thATS SLow to wear out).

19. crawL S AN Inch. SNAIL

Cue, that should be an inch, not and inch. Thanks.

Nice puzzle.

20. MERIT GENeral = regiment

Those are some daffy answers

Thanks, Remi. Sometimes my fingers just go off on their own and type extra letters automatically.

18. What adds = data

10. gatherED RISing. SIRED

Hi Cue.

16. rEALLY GROtesque = allegory

9. See a = ease

11 looks like it could be abet, but is not anagrammed...(aid A BETter cause)

15. soME CAN SPEnd = spacemen

All correct.

Lex, that's the toughest anagram there is That allowance will have to be added to the instructions...for the next one.

The last one isn't an anagram

4. ayes

Aye, matey