CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 They help to house first of baby bears (6) 5 Opening to golden dessert (6) 8 TS Eliot novel contained end of blunt dagger (8) 9 Great number found Half Moon Street (4) 10 Specific word to spell (4) 11 Capital deficit overturned by Mediterranean port (8) 12 At a fête, announced illicit romance (6) 13 Popular pal, prisoner (6) 15 Filthy cigarette residue in single container (8) 18 The pipeline only contains gas (4) 19 Call for two fruit (4) 20 Notes quickly played at new opera gig (8) 21 Hymns in addition to charity donations (6) 22 Switch her, and set (6) DOWN 2 Person mishandling goat digits (13) 3 Diane left girl with a difficult choice (7) 4 Colonist who pays the bills? (7) 5 Sticky stuff left in motorway because of poor light (5) 6 Big volumes, a thousand in small digits (5) 7 Replaced the cartoonist with little warning (2,5,6) 13 Full pint he’d spilt (2-5) 14 Taken on by German, a German administrator (7) 16 Set amount of days with girl (5) 17 Flipper’s call to those in charge (5)