CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

1. Old timer may swap sentry duty by trickery (3,5)

7. Nest was considerately nothing to do with Scotland (5)

8. Dress to the nines and feel the pinch? (7,2)

9. Sheep that sounds like a tree (3)

10. The south cabin was closed (4)

11. The company combining of polymer Germany created (6)

13. Arena he speaks in was all to do with Bill (13)

15. A creature from Manila (6)

16. The argument – it returned very loudly (4)

18. The vitality of five I’m putting together (3)

20. English city has a garland that is French but with misgivings (9)

21. Designers with no grid – that does not make this (5)

22. See the principal have a break and use this perhaps (8)

Down

1. Abstains from eating the fat around the ship (5)

2. The brilliant performance of Ava Burr fantastic (7)

3. Cannot sit still with workers in trousers (4)

4. Was thoughtful about TV election map transposition (13)

5. Mandate for clerical office grade (5)

6. Was in the service of animal medic’s time north (7)

7. With a Berkshire pig rampant created a satirical poem (7)

12. Revealingly Gary went out with him (7)

13. Looks Balkan but is mean (7)

14. A letter from a student in the Eastern ski trail (7)

15. Flamingoes have no flies amidst (5)

17. Won one at last? (5)

19. Swamp grass found in an instrument (4)