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1a
Number two (6)
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4a
Overbearing confidence (6)
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9a
One-piece over-the-shoulders swimsuit for chaps (7)
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10a
Adjust or manipulate (facts or figures) (5)
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11a
Tilt (5)
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12a
Device displaying words to be read out (7)
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13a
By great luck (anag) — one way to stop an opponent getting any further? (5,6)
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18a
Bolster (anag) (7)
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20a
Disease of infants and young children that makes breathing difficult (5)
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22a
Interest that is suddenly all the rage (5)
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23a
Undertaken without payment for the public good (3,4)
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24a
Country where both Celsius and Nobel were born (6)
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25a
Wide of the target (6)
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1d
Heavy silk or linen fabric with a pattern woven into it (6)
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2d
Bamboo-eating bear from China (5)
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3d
Washing machine with two drums (4-3)
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5d
Below the standards required for the purpose (5)
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6d
Drastic (7)
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7d
Suddenly become very angry (3,3)
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8d
Person, like Ebenezer Scrooge, with no time for humankind — North Sea imp (anag) (11)
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14d
Anger caused by being offended (7)
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15d
Giant with a single eye in the middle of the forehead (7)
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16d
Loose trousers (6)
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17d
Strange and frightening (informal) (6)
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19d
Melody with variations (5)
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21d
Our do (anag) (5)