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  1. 1a Steak cut from between the ribs (9)
  2. 8a Therefore (4)
  3. 9a Reggae singer, guitarist and songwriter, d. 1981 (3,6)
  4. 10a Retained (4)
  5. 13a Beginning (5)
  6. 15a About 3,500,000 square miles of Africa (6)
  7. 16a Team sport, informally (6)
  8. 17a Sir Frederick __ , choreographer, d. 1988 (6)
  9. 19a Predicament (6)
  10. 20a Blue-blooded (5)
  11. 21a Head (slang) — be a slacker (4)
  12. 24a Finished (9)
  13. 25a Native wit (4)
  14. 26a Toiletry product (9)
  15. 2d Gas — light (4)
  16. 3d City not built in a day (4)
  17. 4d Ring round the sun or moon (6)
  18. 5d Sway, as if about to fall (6)
  19. 6d Variety of plum (9)
  20. 7d Postgraduate degree (9)
  21. 11d Attacker (9)
  22. 12d Mexican state — breed of dog (9)
  23. 13d Synthetic acrylic fibre (5)
  24. 14d Fine net fabric (5)
  25. 18d Like a dead parrot? (2,4)
  26. 19d Situated (6)
  27. 22d Soft regional accent (4)
  28. 23d Spiteful — excellent (slang) (4)