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1a
Big win! (7)
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8a
Let go (7)
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9a
More flamboyant — enthusiast (7)
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10a
Square of rich chocolate cake (7)
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11a
Cathy (anag) (5)
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13a
Clean with a compressed air jet (9)
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15a
Language invented by a Pole in 1887 — no repeats (anag) (9)
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18a
Siberian city, founded by Tsar Boris Godunov in 1604 (5)
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21a
Reduce in worth (7)
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22a
Unending (7)
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23a
Illustrious (7)
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24a
Muslim women's veil (7)
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1d
Moment (5)
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2d
Rounded and pointed (5)
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3d
Colour remover (5,8)
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4d
Headdress (6)
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5d
1983 Willy Russell musical (5,8)
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6d
Eye part (6)
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7d
Atacama, for example (6)
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12d
Coalition led by Germany, with Italy and Japan, in WWII (4)
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14d
Lather (4)
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15d
Deliberately avoid (6)
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16d
Full of romantic imagery (6)
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17d
Cardinal number (6)
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19d
Musical note (5)
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20d
Prosperous peasant farmer in pre-Stalinist Russia (5)