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  1. 1a Spears eaten as a vegetable (9)
  2. 8a Taste of aged cheeses (5)
  3. 9a Manchester United player and French actor/director, b. 1966 (7)
  4. 10a Monster able to change appearance from human to wild animal and back again (8)
  5. 11a Fencing sword (4)
  6. 13a Account (6)
  7. 14a Chemical compound used as fertiliser (6)
  8. 16a Moored float (4)
  9. 17a Climbing plant with showy flowers — Islam etc (anag) (8)
  10. 19a Lenders at very high interest rates (7)
  11. 20a Shade of green (5)
  12. 21a Distant reaches of the physical universe (4,5)
  13. 1d Sort of! (2,2,4)
  14. 2d Vegetables preserved in brine or vinegar (6)
  15. 3d Part of a ladder (4)
  16. 4d RAF officer rank (5,7)
  17. 5d Aside (5,7)
  18. 6d Going away from home base (7,5)
  19. 7d Butter, cheese etc (5,7)
  20. 12d Damage done to wood by burrowing larvae (8)
  21. 15d It became the 49th US state in 1959 (6)
  22. 18d Jupiter's Greek counterpart (4)