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1a
Baleen — enable who? (anag) (9)
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8a
Military alliance, created 1949 (4)
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9a
Wrong (9)
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10a
Extravagant promotion (4)
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13a
Beam supporting floorboards (5)
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15a
Delight greatly (in) (6)
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16a
Eating (anag) — Moroccan spiced stew (6)
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17a
Malodorous (6)
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19a
Old salt (3,3)
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20a
Irish poet who wrote The Lake Isle of Innisfree, d. 1939 (5)
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21a
Scottish dance (4)
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24a
Prestigious group of US private universities (3,6)
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25a
Wine sediment (4)
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26a
Abundant (9)
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2d
Round of applause (4)
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3d
Asian country (4)
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4d
Accept a loan (6)
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5d
Most kind (6)
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6d
Colourful beetles (9)
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7d
King or queen (9)
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11d
Cylindrical cake (5,4)
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12d
Children's TV programme, running since 1958 (4,5)
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13d
Jovial (5)
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14d
Things you ought not to tell? (5)
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18d
Somerset town close to the Dorset border (6)
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19d
Soviet Union's leader after Lenin's death in 1924 (6)
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22d
Move slowly down the runway (4)
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23d
Large ethnic group of eastern South Africa (4)