Crossword:

CRYPTIC CLUES 14741

ACROSS

5 Mothball the zoo worker who runs a shop

7 Twist to open when debilitated

8 She’s a lady whichever way you look at it

9 Declare a state close by

11 Despicable persons join the Royal Academy on the way back

1 3 Briefly unscrambles stuff

1 4 Handy tips to measure a useful scavenger

1 5 Forecast early February for the snack bar

1 7 A particular blue line up

1 9 Large bodies of soldiers right out of leg irons

20 Tend towards being skin-and-bone

2 1 Spoilsport’s incomplete greases

22 Stray NT individuals become dictators

DOWN

1 Upright, yet on the level. True!

2 Magistrates bills

3 Easy male characters are not pleasing

4 An arachnid returns dips

5 Mocking what is disrespectful

6 Never forgets about arms and legs

1 0 In camera I join a federal republic

1 2 He yens to become a shining example

1 3 In shreds, Canton is impotent

1 6 A great finish after a flying start is on the level

1 8 A pair of islands on the Thames at Oxford