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  1. 1a Recordings of popular songs (they're never original!) (5,8)
  2. 8a It goes with chicken (and bacon!) (3)
  3. 9a One engaged in mortal combat as entertainment in ancient Rome (9)
  4. 10a Driving hazard (8)
  5. 11a Anglo-Saxon king (with a dyke?) (4)
  6. 13a ___ Gray, young man pictured in Oscar Wilde's 1890 novella (6)
  7. 14a Fungal wood decay (3,3)
  8. 16a Rise rapidly (4)
  9. 17a Put forward (8)
  10. 20a State of something subjected to very high temperatures (5,4)
  11. 21a Category 4 Atlantic hurricane that hit Cuba and the US in August/September (3)
  12. 22a Irish author of Waiting for Godot (6,7)
  13. 1d Not costly (5)
  14. 2d Diet adopted by Leo Tolstoy and George Bernard Shaw (13)
  15. 3d To do with a particular part of the country (8)
  16. 4d Part of a tooth (6)
  17. 5d Read quickly (4)
  18. 6d Rusty — picture of a cot (anag) (3,2,8)
  19. 7d Retainer (7)
  20. 12d Relating to the meaning of words (8)
  21. 13d Repudiates (7)
  22. 15d It describes how something is done (6)
  23. 18d Rough initial version of a written work (5)
  24. 19d Small, long-haired dog (abbr) (4)