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  1. 1a Pompous talk (4)
  2. 3a Embarrassed and lacking self-confidence (8)
  3. 8a Skin spots (informal) (4)
  4. 9a Broad (8)
  5. 11a Breakfast cooker? (6,4)
  6. 14a Awkward and inexperienced youth (6)
  7. 15a Fixed number of lines forming a unit of a poem (6)
  8. 17a Device for freezing water (3,7)
  9. 20a Highest point (8)
  10. 21a Rend (4)
  11. 22a Think deeply (8)
  12. 23a Stage (4)
  13. 1d Stock term rendered meaningless by endless repetition (8)
  14. 2d Catastrophe that cannot be insured against (3,2,3)
  15. 4d 50th US state (6)
  16. 5d Visual communication? (3,7)
  17. 6d Long-legged wader (4)
  18. 7d __ and kisses (4)
  19. 10d Unaccompanied church music sung in unison — a ninth clap (anag) (10)
  20. 12d Circuitous (8)
  21. 13d Casually mention famous people you know to impress your audience (8)
  22. 16d Lucky charm (6)
  23. 18d Heroic and long (4)
  24. 19d Close-fitting (4)