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1a
Take by surprise (5,8)
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8a
Rack by a sink for letting crockery dry (7)
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9a
Scruffs of the neck (5)
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10a
Bundle (of hay?) (4)
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11a
Lazy (4-4)
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13a
Cloth in which a body is wrapped for burial (6)
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14a
Decapitate (6)
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17a
Indirect reference (8)
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19a
Level (4)
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21a
Cut into cubes (5)
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22a
Form a mental picture (7)
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24a
Without compunction, pity, or compassion (13)
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1d
Rotter (3)
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2d
Short film advertising a forthcoming feature (7)
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3d
Suspend (4)
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4d
Constricted (6)
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5d
Itinerant (8)
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6d
Waterway where the current runs very fast (5)
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7d
Strap to hold up a stocking (9)
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10d
Onlooker (9)
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12d
Someone not accepted by society (8)
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15d
Draws out (7)
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16d
Relating to cattle (6)
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18d
Temporary replacement doctor (5)
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20d
Sugar merchant and art gallery philanthropist, founder, d. 1899 (4)
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23d
Cathedral city in East Anglia (3)