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5a
Praiseworthy (11)
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7a
Increase suddenly and significantly (4)
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8a
Turncoat (8)
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9a
Absent (7)
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11a
Veracity (5)
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13a
Rigid part of a bicycle (5)
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14a
Author of The Jungle Book (7)
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16a
News report (8)
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17a
Animal with kids? (4)
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18a
Utter obscenities (informal) (3,3,5)
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1d
Light two-wheeled carriage (4)
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2d
Looking fixedly (7)
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3d
Inebriated (5)
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4d
Bad comic verse (8)
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5d
Montmartre nightspot (6,5)
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6d
Area of Czechoslovakia ceded to Germany by the Munich Agreement, 1938 (11)
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10d
Make less complex (8)
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12d
Mock title for a self-important man (3,4)
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15d
Unit of weight (5)
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17d
Walking or running speed (4)