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  1. 1a It capital is Windhoek (7)
  2. 8a Bottle (7)
  3. 9a Cardinale, b. 1938 or Winkleman, b. 1972 (7)
  4. 10a Firmly embedded (4-3)
  5. 11a Japanese dish of cold rice balls (5)
  6. 13a Slender non-stinging insect with iridescent wings (9)
  7. 15a Game played on one's own ground (4,5)
  8. 18a Boredom (5)
  9. 21a Of part of the eye — reliant (anag) (7)
  10. 22a Singing popular songs to recorded music (7)
  11. 23a Degree-granting institution (7)
  12. 24a Cut open (7)
  13. 1d Drinks straight from the bottle (informal) (5)
  14. 2d Method (5)
  15. 3d Doctor's ways? (7,6)
  16. 4d Former French colony, founded 1604, now part of Nova Scotia (6)
  17. 5d Alice in Wonderland's foul-tempered monarch (5,2,6)
  18. 6d Compact group of mountains (6)
  19. 7d Lookout (6)
  20. 12d Release (4)
  21. 14d Post usually occupied by another person (4)
  22. 15d Roman poet and satirist, d. 8 BC (6)
  23. 16d Spirit and resilience (6)
  24. 17d Spilled the beans (6)
  25. 19d Hangman's rope (5)
  26. 20d Awkward (5)