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  1. 1a Coldish (6)
  2. 4a Throws (6)
  3. 8a Unwind (5)
  4. 9a High chest of drawers (7)
  5. 10a Tympanum (7)
  6. 11a With everything included (3-2)
  7. 12a Kind of recession where a brief recovery is followed by a further fall (6-3)
  8. 17a Long-distance walker (5)
  9. 19a Self-contradictory statement (7)
  10. 21a Amazing event (7)
  11. 22a Hard kind of stone — Welsh town on the Dee estuary (5)
  12. 23a Minutes played in a football match (6)
  13. 24a Joining of businesses (6)
  14. 1d Firms operating together, illegally (6)
  15. 2d Badly brought up (3-4)
  16. 3d Egyptian city on the east bank ­of the Nile (5)
  17. 5d The Netherlands (7)
  18. 6d Conspiring group (5)
  19. 7d Maxim (6)
  20. 9d Kind of cinematic technique for showing a slow process at an accelerated pace (4-5)
  21. 13d Dutch city where peace treaties were signed to end the 1701-14 War of the Spanish Succession (7)
  22. 14d Sweet (7)
  23. 15d Medicine man (6)
  24. 16d South-west English city (6)
  25. 18d Holy book of Islam (5)
  26. 20d Gun with a long barrel (5)