CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1. Jade sketched a little table (4) 3. Leave nut out of final (8) 9. Copper found in merry planet (7) 10. Reindeer in stupid rhyme (5) 11. Where the participants often go spare? (7,5) 13. Key to small cupboard (6) 15. No security pass for ski? Dunks animals on the nose (6) 17. Created in bulk at a church service? (4-8) 20. Approach a noisy section of capital (5) 21. Stoker’s work (7) 22. Stumbled and faulted, apparently (8) 23. Kind of vest for animal carers (4) DOWN 1. Silent alarm used at the gym (8) 2. Plastic tube used to make hat (5) 4. Envoy agent’s secret trip (6) 5. Actress who was once on a cruise? (6,6) 6. Many plump teenagers have too much (7) 7. Boys using ladders outside (4) 8. Blue skies? Sin to become professional (12) 12. Crusades to recycle old motors (4,4) 14. TV station in a rut (7) 16. The captain stands on it, even when going under it (6) 18. Asked to shoot slide (5) 19. Jamie Oliver, for instance, cooks his entrees first (4)