CRYPTIC CLUES

Across

7. In the main, transports of delight (8-5)

8. Provides corroboration that the grizzly’s escaped! (5,3)

9. I’m splitting a pound for a member (4)

10. Trifle with what the bowman uses (6)

12. What one uses to enter this kind of game (6)

14. Stockpiled in Dorset? (6) 16. They are inclined to get work in less troubled surroundings (6)

18. Groove the edge of a grinder (4)

20. Somehow ignore nearly everything to do with a district (8)

22. Copper base (6-7)

Down

1. A falsehood isn’t mistaken by one treating mental illness (8) 2. Put in braces (6)

3. Victor gets an embrace and nothing more (4)

4. In the ship, entire reorganisation of the watches (8) 5. Frustrated description of a fencer (6)

6. Check the forepart of the vessel (4)

11. Gave some backing by name (8)

13. One working in the theatre as a telephonist (8)

15. In the attack the Spanish will be put down again (6)

17. Make rings round the harbour from which wine is exported (6)

19. The image of one prisoner (4)

21. It’s used in entering a tea-garden (4)