CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Staff job (4)

3. Ready to destroy red paper (8)

9. Transport the complete works (7)

10. Not yielding the tackle I had (5)

11. Rate too highly – time to serve a different order (12)

13. This shows the bare facts (6)

15. A usually young man who gives a service (6)

17. In Spanish port food allowance will provide energy (12)

20. A volley of applause for a canon (5)

21. A pointer to what is needed for a good diet (7)

22. They accumulate stock (8)

23. Naval areas to capture, we hear (4)

DOWN

1. Deep-thinking public relations officer discovered (8)

2. Hearing, for example, what appeals to reason (5)

4. Makes new adjustments about film scenes (6)

5. Transport for a small charge (12)

6. An occasion consisting of races in the main (7)

7. Poor clothes are far from successful (4)

8. Describing the preoccupied professor inclined to play truant? (6-6)

12. Scraps cause the disturbed man to be in tears (8)

14. A plate used at mealtimes (7)

16. This is little change for a policeman (6)

18. She is enmeshed in the wire-netting (5)

19. A bolt upset the horse (4)