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  1. 1a Children's game with bat and tennis ball (6,7)
  2. 8a Unpleasantly harsh in sound (7)
  3. 9a Swedish prize-giver (5)
  4. 10a Unsmiling (4)
  5. 11a Captain Nemo's submarine (8)
  6. 13a Take-off and landing strip (6)
  7. 14a King Edward, for example (6)
  8. 17a Charmed (8)
  9. 19a Flat mass of sea ice (4)
  10. 21a Yellow fruit (it's also the answer!) (5)
  11. 22a Compunction (7)
  12. 24a Stubborn refusal to compromise (13)
  13. 1d Sweet fleshy fruit, often dried (3)
  14. 2d Avoidance (7)
  15. 3d Plagiarise (4)
  16. 4d Brandy (6)
  17. 5d Mechanism firing up an internal-combustion engine (8)
  18. 6d Capital of Afghanistan (5)
  19. 7d Instrument to magnify the image of distant objects (9)
  20. 10d Italian hero, who led his "Thousand Redshirts" against the Austrians, d. 1882 (9)
  21. 12d Large Spanish estate (8)
  22. 15d Aircraft's wing foil that controls lateral motion (7)
  23. 16d Red playing cards (6)
  24. 18d Full extent (5)
  25. 20d Visible air pollution (4)
  26. 23d Period immediately before (3)