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  1. 1a Too near one's own situation for comfort (5,2,4)
  2. 9a Playhouse performing a regular stock of works (9)
  3. 10a Expected (3)
  4. 11a Shut up (5)
  5. 13a Outstanding — star-like (7)
  6. 14a Speak highly of (6)
  7. 15a Directionless (6)
  8. 18a Share — chanter (anag) (7)
  9. 20a Deadly (5)
  10. 21a Dram (3)
  11. 22a Snow slip (9)
  12. 24a Interminable (5-6)
  13. 2d Single circuit of a track (3)
  14. 3d Paces — trousers (7)
  15. 4d Maoist (anag) — Chinese religion (6)
  16. 5d English astronomer who rejected the "Big Bang" theory of the origins of the universe, d. 2001 (5)
  17. 6d Prizewinner (9)
  18. 7d Done without careful consideration (11)
  19. 8d Cloth cap (for a hunter?) (11)
  20. 12d Warranty (9)
  21. 16d Swindle (7)
  22. 17d Vandalise (6)
  23. 19d Short-lived fashion (5)
  24. 23d Is able (3)