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1a
Decisive (9)
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8a
Talk incessantly (3,2)
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9a
Make — way (7)
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10a
Unmatched (8)
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11a
Personal influence over others (informal) (4)
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13a
Side dishes (6)
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14a
Trigger (3,3)
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16a
Jan van __ , painter of the Arnolfini Portrait (4)
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17a
Upper part of the face (8)
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19a
Frontier settlement (7)
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20a
Piece of poetry (5)
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21a
Taken aback (9)
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1d
Close (8)
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2d
Steep — brew (6)
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3d
Too (4)
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4d
Branch of pure mathematics — merry tooting (anag) (12)
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5d
Soldiers seen as expendable (6,6)
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6d
Totally absurd (12)
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7d
Person one is talking with (12)
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12d
On hold (8)
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15d
Silently moves one's lips (6)
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18d
Open land covered with heather and bracken (4)