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  1. 1a Popular starter (5,8)
  2. 8a Low wall along a roof edge (7)
  3. 9a Lowest point (5)
  4. 10a Noise of a small object dropping into water (4)
  5. 11a Old campaigner (8)
  6. 13a Nervously restrained laugh (6)
  7. 14a Hitchcock's 1960 classic (6)
  8. 17a Event (8)
  9. 19a Expression of grief (4)
  10. 21a Large flow of liquid (5)
  11. 22a Those leaving their own country for political reasons (7)
  12. 24a Pell-mell (6-7)
  13. 1d Get-up-and-go (3)
  14. 2d Par trio (anag) — Charles de Gaulle, say (7)
  15. 3d Small bites (4)
  16. 4d Robin Hood figure? (6)
  17. 5d Capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (8)
  18. 6d Birch relative (5)
  19. 7d Relating to theft (9)
  20. 10d Abraham or Isaac, perhaps (9)
  21. 12d French cop (8)
  22. 15d Guilty party (7)
  23. 16d Except if (6)
  24. 18d Not rude (5)
  25. 20d Gripper — fault (4)
  26. 23d Title for a baronet (3)