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  1. 1a Need to drink (6)
  2. 4a Extremely unconventional (3-3)
  3. 8a Private ___ , 1930 Noel Coward comedy (5)
  4. 9a Powerful individual (3,4)
  5. 10a Building (7)
  6. 11a Move unsteadily (5)
  7. 12a Treasury (9)
  8. 17a Large group (5)
  9. 19a Marched up and down (7)
  10. 21a Go in all directions (7)
  11. 22a It's made to do the heavy lifting (5)
  12. 23a Notice (6)
  13. 24a Compelling (6)
  14. 1d Cashier (6)
  15. 2d Request for payment (7)
  16. 3d Raw fish and rice dish (5)
  17. 5d Maya ___ , US writer, poet and civil rights activist, d. 2014 (7)
  18. 6d Alternative (5)
  19. 7d Easily annoyed (6)
  20. 9d What Sherlock Holmes became in retirement (9)
  21. 13d Judaeo-Christian God (7)
  22. 14d Unnecessary rules (3,4)
  23. 15d One drink after another? (6)
  24. 16d Most strange (6)
  25. 18d Sphere (5)
  26. 20d Fast car (5)