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  1. 1a Skewer for party food (8,5)
  2. 8a Fruit-growing area (7)
  3. 9a Silent and out of sight (5)
  4. 10a ___ Dunn, author of Up the Junction (1963) (4)
  5. 11a Fragile exterior (not to be walked on!) (8)
  6. 13a Follow secretly (6)
  7. 14a Pointless — ineffective (2,4)
  8. 17a Tree-related (8)
  9. 19a Present (4)
  10. 21a Cultivated (5)
  11. 22a Sell illegally produced products (7)
  12. 24a It's the story of my life! (13)
  13. 1d Speak lovingly (3)
  14. 2d Virgin martyr, patron saint of music, killed c. AD 230 (7)
  15. 3d Species of duck (4)
  16. 4d Blue dye (6)
  17. 5d Not the main event (8)
  18. 6d (Fire)place (5)
  19. 7d Information (9)
  20. 10d Lost again (anag) — hankering for the past (9)
  21. 12d Opener — Dr No book (anag) (8)
  22. 15d Coincide to some extent (7)
  23. 16d Hollow-stemmed tropical grass (6)
  24. 18d (Encourage)ment (5)
  25. 20d Serve a drink (4)
  26. 23d Rope used to secure a tent (3)