15. A potato is a spud, and if we change dental D to plosive B, and mash it (
), we can get PUBS.
And sticking with the pub theme... #5: Wetherspoons is a very generic pub chain. If we remove the letters for 'others', we get 'wepons'... add that final article for WEAPONS.
And for 22 (which I had to try, given ions)... disadvantages, declare, by, charged atoms = CONS + TELL + AT + IONS = CONSTELLATIONS which are very shiny.
hS