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1a
Novel featuring Becky Sharp (6,4)
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7a
Slanting type (7)
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8a
List of contents (5)
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10a
Gracious! (4)
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11a
Four-line stanza (8)
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13a
Comparatively dubious (6)
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15a
Chew the fat (6)
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17a
Bypass (4,4)
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18a
Pen (inventor) (4)
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21a
Period before an event (3-2)
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22a
Italian dough balls (7)
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23a
Days of yore (10)
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1d
Medicine bottles (5)
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2d
Like Voltaire’s Candide (4)
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3d
Event with different but equally likely outcomes (4-2)
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4d
Conflict or animosity (8)
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5d
E.g. Tendulkar and Tagore (7)
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6d
Protuberant vehicle part (4,6)
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9d
Intolerance to foreigners (10)
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12d
Ruined because of age (8)
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14d
Fund (7)
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16d
<span>Pester – </span><i>Wind in the Willows</i><span> character</span> (6)
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19d
Bring upon oneself (5)
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20d
Fizzy drink – drug – fuel (4)