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  1. 1a Weather (forecast) feature (4,5)
  2. 8a Countryside (5)
  3. 9a Do nothing with one's thumbs? (7)
  4. 10a The UK today? (8)
  5. 11a Jumbled mess (4)
  6. 13a Has a fit of the vapours? (6)
  7. 14a Sponsor (6)
  8. 16a Japan's national legislature (4)
  9. 17a Pooch fan (3,5)
  10. 19a Plants that complete their life cycles within the space of a year (7)
  11. 20a Engender (like fish?) (5)
  12. 21a Corruption (9)
  13. 1d Gas, Cl (8)
  14. 2d Chinese fruit with a thin rough skin and sweet white flesh (6)
  15. 3d Light fencing sword (4)
  16. 4d As alumni of the same school, a CV link shared by Churchill and Nehru (3,9)
  17. 5d Baby's dummy (8,4)
  18. 6d Place of complete bliss and peace? (8,4)
  19. 7d As in a concert (anag) — from the other side of the pond? (12)
  20. 12d Cumbrian city (8)
  21. 15d Switches on a computer — lingos (anag) (4,2)
  22. 18d Lady who Alfred Tennyson asked to 'come into the garden' (4)