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  1. 1a Drink — assimilate (6)
  2. 4a Prized (6)
  3. 9a Enzo ___ , Italian car designer and manufacturer, d. 1988 (7)
  4. 10a Small round women's hat (5)
  5. 11a Aggregate (5)
  6. 12a Hunting dog — bird of prey (7)
  7. 13a Shakespearean sleepwalker (4,7)
  8. 18a Middle East capital (7)
  9. 20a Very important person (5)
  10. 22a Proposition assumed to be self-evident (5)
  11. 23a Warning in Germany (7)
  12. 24a Spur on with cheers and shouts (6)
  13. 25a Quick and skilful (6)
  14. 1d Laughing uncontrollably (2,4)
  15. 2d Brimless cap (also worn in France!) (5)
  16. 3d A cooking apple (7)
  17. 5d Thespian (5)
  18. 6d Fraught with anxiety (7)
  19. 7d Dismal (6)
  20. 8d All the time — Cole Porter song from the 1932 musical Gay Divorce (5,3,3)
  21. 14d Severe mental distress (7)
  22. 15d Bungled (7)
  23. 16d Burning fiercely (6)
  24. 17d Gawain or Galahad, say (6)
  25. 19d Express reluctance (5)
  26. 21d Cornwall's county town and only city (5)