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1a
Patient — legal action (4)
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3a
Wind-eroded dry area of the United States (4,4)
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8a
Threaten (4)
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9a
Excessively instructive (8)
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11a
Give up (10)
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14a
Reject (6)
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15a
Smoked breakfast fish (6)
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17a
Novelty show with insects (4,6)
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20a
Speech (8)
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21a
Extinct bird of Mauritius (4)
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22a
Bad behaviour (8)
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23a
That seems unlikely! (2,2)
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1d
Kind of beetle, a potato pest (8)
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2d
Perfectly clean (8)
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4d
Singular (6)
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5d
Willingness to work together (4,6)
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6d
Obscene word or expression (4)
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7d
Wingless bloodsuckers (4)
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10d
Machine for clearing flakes? (10)
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12d
Convincing at first, but flawed (8)
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13d
Rebuff (5,3)
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16d
Rinse throat with mouthwash (6)
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18d
(Of probability) remote (4)
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19d
Responsibility (4)
