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  1. 1a In shock (13)
  2. 8a Speculative behaviour (7)
  3. 9a Rationale (5)
  4. 10a Very thin (4)
  5. 11a Hidden (8)
  6. 13a Book pages (6)
  7. 14a It’s a tip (6)
  8. 17a Desire (8)
  9. 19a Manicurist’s tool (4)
  10. 21a Play it slowly (5)
  11. 22a Inundated (7)
  12. 24a Study of fossils (13)
  13. 1d Old watch chain (3)
  14. 2d Insect’s super-sensitive part (7)
  15. 3d Find two on a wicket (4)
  16. 4d Fixed (an election, say) (6)
  17. 5d Having a bad reaction to something (8)
  18. 6d Mean – and drunk (5)
  19. 7d Moral decline (9)
  20. 10d Bungled dive (5,4)
  21. 12d Tall plant support (8)
  22. 15d Before (5,2)
  23. 16d Strongly urge (6)
  24. 18d T S Eliot’s cruellest month (5)
  25. 20d Local ____, 1983 Bill Forsyth film (4)
  26. 23d Vote against the motion (3)