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1a
Hottest time of the year (3,4)
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8a
Small-time criminal (7)
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9a
Fast ball bowled aggressively short (7)
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10a
One in the know (7)
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11a
The ___ Man, 1949 film about Harry Lime (5)
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13a
Vacancy (9)
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15a
Intermediary (2-7)
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18a
Stealing (5)
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21a
Initially (2,5)
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22a
Joy or hate, for example (7)
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23a
Knot of hair arranged at the back of the head (7)
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24a
Hanging decorations of threads gathered at the top (7)
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1d
Payment still owed (5)
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2d
Spanish architect, greatest exponent of Catalan Modernism, d. 1926 (5)
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3d
Often involved in mishaps — it concerned PA (anag) (8-5)
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4d
Basis of a seafood cocktail? (6)
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5d
Painstaking (13)
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6d
Commit(ment) (6)
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7d
Hurts (6)
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12d
Visible indication of holiness (4)
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14d
Ego (4)
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15d
Hit at an angle and bounce off (6)
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16d
Egghead (6)
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17d
Full distance (6)
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19d
Enforced absence (5)
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20d
Chinese secret organisations (5)
