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1a
Brusque (6)
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4a
Strong and heavy in build (5)
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7a
Short-legged hound (6)
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8a
Relating to flowers (6)
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9a
Foxtrot follower (4)
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10a
Author of The Remains of the Day (8)
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12a
Smelling salts (3,8)
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17a
Busily working (4,2,2)
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19a
Bird of prey (4)
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20a
Zigzag ski race (6)
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21a
Material for violin strings (6)
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22a
Very much (2,3)
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23a
Harass vocally (6)
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1d
Legendary female warriors (7)
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2d
Soothing (7)
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3d
Underskirt (9)
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4d
Pakistani curry dish, originating perhaps in 1970s' Birmingham (5)
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5d
Baleen whale (7)
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6d
Cowardly (6)
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11d
Great sadness (9)
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13d
Amount of land (7)
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14d
Principal city of Siberia — UK skirt (anag) (7)
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15d
Express eager enjoyment (7)
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16d
Selected (6)
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18d
Shun (5)
