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