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1a
Grit sweeper on? (anag) — it makes driving easier (5,8)
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8a
Sincere — humourless (7)
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9a
Tree with orange-red berry-like fruits (5)
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10a
Peak (4)
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11a
Savaged (4,4)
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13a
Hergé's adventurous young Belgian reporter (6)
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14a
Put the ball in the net (6)
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17a
Branch of mathematics (8)
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19a
Substance taker (4)
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21a
Excuse (5)
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22a
Treating badly (7)
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24a
In a lackadaisical fashion (4-9)
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1d
Fruit or meat dish (3)
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2d
Labourer (7)
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3d
Regrets (4)
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4d
Italian painter of the Venetian school, patronised by Philip II of Spain (6)
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5d
Wife of Orpheus (8)
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6d
From Des Moines? (5)
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7d
Explosive invented in 9th-century China (9)
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10d
Signature (9)
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12d
Accompaniment at mealtime (4,4)
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15d
Quash (7)
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16d
Misprints in a book (6)
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18d
Type of bay window (5)
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20d
Sculpture — ruined (4)
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23d
Writer of The Beggar's Opera (3)
