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1a
Coney (6)
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4a
Elegant and fashionable (5)
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7a
Hindu festival with lights, celebrating the end of the monsoon (6)
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8a
Not divisible by two (6)
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9a
Energetic dance — swing music (4)
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10a
Plant with large brightly coloured flowers — cub is his (anag) (8)
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12a
Consonant formed in Estuary English, making 'butter' sound as 'bu/er' — plot lost tag (anag) (7,4)
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17a
Galaxy (5,3)
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19a
Holy Father (4)
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20a
Mountain peak where Noah's Ark landed (6)
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21a
Person who plunders (6)
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22a
Attempt to pull a fast one (3-2)
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23a
Indifference to life (6)
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1d
Barrier consisting of bars (7)
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2d
Mexican agricultural labourer in the US — crab roe (anag) (7)
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3d
Hibernian meat and veg dish (5,4)
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4d
One of the two main branches of orthodox Islam (5)
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5d
Without reference to anything else (Latin) (2,5)
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6d
Frank and reliable (6)
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11d
Ungainly (and painful) dive (5,4)
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13d
Song for bedtime (7)
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14d
Main support for a tree, growing straight downward from the trunk (7)
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15d
Hot (7)
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16d
Diacritical mark used in German (ä, ö, ü) (6)
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18d
Hanker (5)
