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  1. 1a 24 cutter (7)
  2. 8a Harmful look? (4,3)
  3. 9a Labour standard? (3,4)
  4. 10a Enlarge (7)
  5. 11a In progress (5)
  6. 13a Student of animal life (9)
  7. 15a Small boiled sweet (like a fairy?) — gulp as rum (anag) (9)
  8. 18a Saying widely assumed to be true (5)
  9. 21a Continue for too long (7)
  10. 22a Pistol, say (7)
  11. 23a Rain lightly (7)
  12. 24a Where doctors see their patients (7)
  13. 1d Bashar al-Assad's country (5)
  14. 2d Sound part of a transmitted signal (5)
  15. 3d Annual award for journalism, literature, musical composition and public service, established 1917 (8,5)
  16. 4d (Musically) smooth (6)
  17. 5d RAF officer (4,9)
  18. 6d From Saudi Arabia's southern neighbour? (6)
  19. 7d Musical composition for seven performers (6)
  20. 12d German woman (4)
  21. 14d Grain tower (4)
  22. 15d Unethical — dishonest (6)
  23. 16d A Celtic language (6)
  24. 17d Transparent optical devices (6)
  25. 19d Spitting blood (or feathers) (5)
  26. 20d Ancient Egyptian kept under wraps (5)