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1a
Key used to delete the previous letter (9)
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8a
Flaming __ , Frederic Leighton's 1895 painting (4)
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9a
Promote (9)
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10a
Therefore (4)
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13a
Unemotional person (5)
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15a
Formula for making something (6)
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16a
Kind of incentive? (6)
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17a
Flat bread eaten at Passover (6)
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19a
Shuffling of a pack of cards (6)
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20a
Degree — grade (5)
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21a
River running from the North Pennines to the North Sea (4)
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24a
Stew (9)
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25a
Clare Smyth or Heston Blumenthal? (4)
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26a
Tiresomely, over and over again (2,7)
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2d
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (4)
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3d
German Baltic city, host each year to the world's largest sailing event (4)
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4d
Little (6)
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5d
Inconceivably big (6)
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6d
Skills needed to survive in a natural environment (9)
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7d
Single-room accommodation (9)
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11d
Cooked fowl's lower joint (9)
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12d
Widely distributed (9)
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13d
What things are wound around (5)
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14d
Raise trivial objections (5)
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18d
Foreshadow (6)
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19d
Body of water that Moses parted when leading the Israelites from Egypt to the Promised Land (3,3)
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22d
Guns (to be borne?) (4)
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23d
Kind of circus performer? (4)