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  1. 1a Vegetable of the brassica family with purplish leaves (3,7)
  2. 7a Put the phone down (4,3)
  3. 8a More ill-mannered (5)
  4. 10a Be aware of (4)
  5. 11a What Greek dolmades are wrapped in (4,4)
  6. 13a Large black dots in eyes (6)
  7. 15a Turn from a liquid to a solid (6)
  8. 17a Fierce fight (when the bell sounds?) (4-4)
  9. 18a Maori war dance (4)
  10. 21a French state secondary school (5)
  11. 22a Having daydreams (7)
  12. 23a Frances Hodgson Burnett's Little Lord, published 1886 (10)
  13. 1d The Fab Four's drummer (5)
  14. 2d It can open (and close!) (4)
  15. 3d (Being) up to date (2,4)
  16. 4d Port city on the Garonne in south-west France, a major wine capital (8)
  17. 5d Manna from heaven! (7)
  18. 6d Put your foot down here when you want to stop (5,5)
  19. 9d Place for shooting practice (5,5)
  20. 12d Batter with a heavy object (8)
  21. 14d The elusive universal remedy (7)
  22. 16d Brute (6)
  23. 19d Cordial relations (5)
  24. 20d Rain heavily (4)