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1a
Overcast (6)
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4a
German dramatist and poet who wrote The Threepenny Opera, d.1956 (6)
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9a
Knock down (3,4)
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10a
Climbing plant of the pea family, cultivated as fodder (5)
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11a
Fault (5)
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12a
Dashing and debonair young man (7)
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13a
Regular failure to turn up for work (11)
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18a
Ceremonially impure (7)
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20a
Tree of the birch family (5)
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22a
Immature form of an insect before metamorphosis (5)
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23a
Flammable liquid hydrocarbon mixture (7)
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24a
Highly motivated (6)
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25a
Committed to memory (6)
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1d
Large wader of the sandpiper family (6)
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2d
Possessor (5)
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3d
Varied (7)
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5d
Bolero composer, d. 1937 (5)
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6d
Short curved naval sword (7)
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7d
South Pacific island where both Robert Louis Stevenson and Paul Gauguin spent time (6)
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8d
Causing alarm (11)
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14d
White rum, first produced in Cuba (7)
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15d
Specimen (7)
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16d
Greek mathematician, d. mid-3rd century BC (6)
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17d
Out-and-out (6)
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19d
Fill with high spirits (5)
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21d
Discourage (5)