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18a) Trendy sweetheart with incense (7)
???L?M?

20a) Toy needed for drama night, perhaps (9)
?L?E???N?

11d) Weep, embracing performing friend (5)
?R???

15d) Swim in English city, eagerly at first (5)
?a???

Im new to cryptic so explanations would be great too, Thanks. x

20 - Plaything ?

11 - crony ?

15 - Bathe

18 - inflame

Sorry did not read your last sentence

Inflame In =trendy. Flame = girl friend

Crony Weep = cry, performing = on

Bathe.City = Bath + E start of earnestly.

Thank you, all fit except PLAYTHING as i have an E where the Y should go.

That clue down was 'southen man, shattered and penniless (5,5)'
I had STONE BROKE, what else could it be?

Thanks x

Stony broke.

Southern (S) man (tony) shattered (broke)