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1
a
Brusque (6)
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4
a
Strong and heavy in build (5)
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7
a
Short-legged hound (6)
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8
a
Relating to flowers (6)
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9
a
Foxtrot follower (4)
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10
a
Author of The Remains of the Day (8)
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12
a
Smelling salts (3,8)
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17
a
Busily working (4,2,2)
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19
a
Bird of prey (4)
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20
a
Zigzag ski race (6)
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21
a
Material for violin strings (6)
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22
a
Very much (2,3)
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23
a
Harass vocally (6)
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1
d
Legendary female warriors (7)
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2
d
Soothing (7)
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3
d
Underskirt (9)
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4
d
Pakistani curry dish, originating perhaps in 1970s' Birmingham (5)
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5
d
Baleen whale (7)
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6
d
Cowardly (6)
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11
d
Great sadness (9)
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13
d
Amount of land (7)
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14
d
Principal city of Siberia — UK skirt (anag) (7)
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15
d
Express eager enjoyment (7)
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16
d
Selected (6)
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18
d
Shun (5)