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  1. 1a Puzzle (6)
  2. 4a Important — ex-PM (5)
  3. 7a Picture house (6)
  4. 8a Reports of the work of a society or learned body (6)
  5. 9a Highlander, say (4)
  6. 10a Valuable rock for cutting and polishing (8)
  7. 12a Impassive (11)
  8. 17a Announce (8)
  9. 19a Small gentle animal (worth £25?) (4)
  10. 20a Flower — Bertie Wooster's aunt (6)
  11. 21a Lacking any breadth of view (6)
  12. 22a Tall and thin (5)
  13. 23a French head of state following François Hollande (6)
  14. 1d French bread (7)
  15. 2d Artist of consummate skill (7)
  16. 3d James Hilton's mythical paradise (7-2)
  17. 4d Mathematical operation (5)
  18. 5d Desiring what others have (7)
  19. 6d Brown with a red tinge (6)
  20. 11d Single obsession (9)
  21. 13d Medium-sized water bird without webbed feet (7)
  22. 14d Beethoven piano concerto, Op. 73 (7)
  23. 15d Period at the end of the day (7)
  24. 16d An arachnid (6)
  25. 18d Conceited — flashy — aggressive (5)