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  1. 1 a System for gambling on the Beautiful Game? (8,5)
  2. 8 a Most favourable (7)
  3. 9 a Shelf (5)
  4. 10 a Person bound to the land and owned by a feudal lord (4)
  5. 11 a Marked by moral decay (8)
  6. 13 a Grow (6)
  7. 14 a Whatsit (6)
  8. 17 a Cunning (8)
  9. 19 a Stare idiotically (4)
  10. 21 a Second most populous country in the world (5)
  11. 22 a Profane (7)
  12. 24 a Situation where many predatory fish attack a food source (7,6)
  13. 1 d To and ___ (3)
  14. 2 d Most populous Canadian province (7)
  15. 3 d Bash into (4)
  16. 4 d Proverbially clingy mollusc (6)
  17. 5 d Kind of fabric with a circular spot pattern (used for teeny-weeny bikinis?) (5-3)
  18. 6 d Elderly person (5)
  19. 7 d Factory with low pay and long working hours (9)
  20. 10 d Crooked (4-5)
  21. 12 d Person who tries to force another to do his bidding (8)
  22. 15 d Coerce someone to do something against their will (7)
  23. 16 d Requesting (6)
  24. 18 d Cottage at the entrance to the grounds of a big house (5)
  25. 20 d Goad (4)
  26. 23 d Hog house (3)

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