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1a
Unconvincing (3-7)
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7a
Health examination (5-2)
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8a
Messaging device (5)
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10a
What cake-makers do (4)
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11a
Amount by which imports exceed exports (5,3)
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13a
Musical compositions to practise specific skills (6)
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15a
Artist's workplace (6)
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17a
Dish of rice, eggs and fish (8)
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18a
Curved line on a musical score (4)
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21a
Less common (5)
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22a
Large house (7)
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23a
Blood sport (3-7)
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1d
Small mark (5)
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2d
Dissolute man (4)
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3d
British or Brittas ___ (6)
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4d
Avarice (8)
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5d
Hired (7)
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6d
Activity to get strangers talking (10)
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9d
Very exciting (3-7)
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12d
What academics do (8)
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14d
Cook insufficiently (7)
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16d
Sycophants (3-3)
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19d
Mendacious (5)
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20d
Opposed to (4)