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  1. 1a Problems in the early stages (7,5)
  2. 9a Beasts of burden (5)
  3. 10a Coffee shop coffee-maker (7)
  4. 11a Notice of someone's death (abbr) (4)
  5. 12a Illustrious (8)
  6. 14a American boss man (6)
  7. 15a Credence (6)
  8. 18a Forebear (8)
  9. 20a Adherent of an Indian religion (4)
  10. 22a To cut a long story short (2,5)
  11. 23a Like a imaginary line about which a body rotates (5)
  12. 24a Cold dessert made with puff pastry, cream etc (12)
  13. 2d Roulette, salad, tea or thistle (7)
  14. 3d Stinging insect (4)
  15. 4d Collared (6)
  16. 5d Forgiven (8)
  17. 6d Norwegian playwright, who wrote all his plays in Danish, d. 1906 (5)
  18. 7d Rugby player (5-3,4)
  19. 8d Narrowness of outlook (12)
  20. 13d Castigate (8)
  21. 16d First (7)
  22. 17d confectionery made of caramelised sugar (6)
  23. 19d Group of plotters (5)
  24. 21d Surrealist painter, born in Catalonia, d. 1989 (4)