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  1. 1a Loving touch (6)
  2. 4a Fragment of pottery (5)
  3. 7a Landlocked country of south central Africa (6)
  4. 8a American country — eco-mix (anag) (6)
  5. 9a Serious falling out (4)
  6. 10a Store through which you are forced to pass on the way out? (4,4)
  7. 12a Spongy confection, often toasted (11)
  8. 17a Cost (5,3)
  9. 19a Ship's company (4)
  10. 20a Country — 21 shillings (6)
  11. 21a Ready and wanting to have children (6)
  12. 22a Minuscule (5)
  13. 23a Boil (with anger?) (6)
  14. 1d Skull (7)
  15. 2d Nuclear energy generator (7)
  16. 3d Catapult — thin gloss (anag) (9)
  17. 4d American clay pigeon shooting (5)
  18. 5d Sneeze sound (7)
  19. 6d Hanging loose (6)
  20. 11d Easily broken — gerbil fan (anag) (9)
  21. 13d Senseless (7)
  22. 14d Exclusion of the workforce by the management (7)
  23. 15d Deploy sweet talk (7)
  24. 16d Cask's plug (6)
  25. 18d Poem lamenting the dead (5)