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1a
Knock off (6)
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4a
Detestable (6)
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9a
Small cube of fried bread (7)
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10a
Ate (5)
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11a
Make painstaking enquiries (into something) (5)
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12a
Kill (7)
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13a
By its very nature (11)
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18a
Pig hurt (anag) — noble (7)
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20a
Lacerate (5)
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22a
Alec's (anag) — graduation (5)
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23a
Malicious hostility (7)
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24a
Mankind (6)
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25a
Scurry — small car (6)
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1d
Reach a conclusion (6)
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2d
Whimsically comical (5)
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3d
Road safety device (7)
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5d
Needless (5)
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6d
Voluptuous (7)
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7d
Progress unsteadily (due to age?) (6)
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8d
Ceremony of conferring honours of rank on a person (11)
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14d
Bitter derision (7)
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15d
Failure to be there (7)
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16d
Sudden illegal acquisition of power (6)
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17d
Accumulation of electricity (6)
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19d
Envious — environmentalist (5)
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21d
Take as one's own (5)
