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1a
Children's game with bat and tennis ball (6,7)
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8a
Unpleasantly harsh in sound (7)
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9a
Swedish prize-giver (5)
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10a
Unsmiling (4)
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11a
Captain Nemo's submarine (8)
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13a
Take-off and landing strip (6)
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14a
King Edward, for example (6)
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17a
Charmed (8)
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19a
Flat mass of sea ice (4)
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21a
Yellow fruit (it's also the answer!) (5)
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22a
Compunction (7)
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24a
Stubborn refusal to compromise (13)
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1d
Sweet fleshy fruit, often dried (3)
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2d
Avoidance (7)
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3d
Plagiarise (4)
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4d
Brandy (6)
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5d
Mechanism firing up an internal-combustion engine (8)
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6d
Capital of Afghanistan (5)
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7d
Instrument to magnify the image of distant objects (9)
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10d
Italian hero, who led his "Thousand Redshirts" against the Austrians, d. 1882 (9)
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12d
Large Spanish estate (8)
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15d
Aircraft's wing foil that controls lateral motion (7)
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16d
Red playing cards (6)
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18d
Full extent (5)
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20d
Visible air pollution (4)
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23d
Period immediately before (3)
