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1a
Recordings of popular songs (they're never original!) (5,8)
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8a
It goes with chicken (and bacon!) (3)
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9a
One engaged in mortal combat as entertainment in ancient Rome (9)
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10a
Driving hazard (8)
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11a
Anglo-Saxon king (with a dyke?) (4)
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13a
___ Gray, young man pictured in Oscar Wilde's 1890 novella (6)
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14a
Fungal wood decay (3,3)
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16a
Rise rapidly (4)
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17a
Put forward (8)
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20a
State of something subjected to very high temperatures (5,4)
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21a
Category 4 Atlantic hurricane that hit Cuba and the US in August/September (3)
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22a
Irish author of Waiting for Godot (6,7)
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1d
Not costly (5)
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2d
Diet adopted by Leo Tolstoy and George Bernard Shaw (13)
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3d
To do with a particular part of the country (8)
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4d
Part of a tooth (6)
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5d
Read quickly (4)
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6d
Rusty — picture of a cot (anag) (3,2,8)
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7d
Retainer (7)
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12d
Relating to the meaning of words (8)
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13d
Repudiates (7)
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15d
It describes how something is done (6)
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18d
Rough initial version of a written work (5)
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19d
Small, long-haired dog (abbr) (4)