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  1. 1a Singer, perhaps — chewing is mean (anag) (6,7)
  2. 8a Outer packaging (7)
  3. 9a Influence (5)
  4. 10a White tissue under the peel of citrus fruit (4)
  5. 11a Grateful expression (5,3)
  6. 13a Guilty (6)
  7. 14a Greek island where Odysseus was king (6)
  8. 17a Person paying (8)
  9. 19a Counterspy (4)
  10. 21a Skilled (5)
  11. 22a Not serious (7)
  12. 24a Thawing of icy relations (13)
  13. 1d Woodcutter (3)
  14. 2d American novelist, author of The Age of Innocence, d. 1937 (7)
  15. 3d Back of the neck (4)
  16. 4d Waterlogged (6)
  17. 5d Funfair stall knock-offs? (8)
  18. 6d Piano key? (5)
  19. 7d VIP's attendants (9)
  20. 10d Child's buggy (9)
  21. 12d Train from London to Paris, Brussels or Amsterdam (8)
  22. 15d Turn into a fine spray (7)
  23. 16d Fast — wild (6)
  24. 18d Brush up — look for bugs (5)
  25. 20d Bird of prey — spinnaker (informal) (4)
  26. 23d Permit (3)