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  1. 1 a Loving touch (6)
  2. 4 a Fragment of pottery (5)
  3. 7 a Landlocked country of south central Africa (6)
  4. 8 a American country — eco-mix (anag) (6)
  5. 9 a Serious falling out (4)
  6. 10 a Store through which you are forced to pass on the way out? (4,4)
  7. 12 a Spongy confection, often toasted (11)
  8. 17 a Cost (5,3)
  9. 19 a Ship's company (4)
  10. 20 a Country — 21 shillings (6)
  11. 21 a Ready and wanting to have children (6)
  12. 22 a Minuscule (5)
  13. 23 a Boil (with anger?) (6)
  14. 1 d Skull (7)
  15. 2 d Nuclear energy generator (7)
  16. 3 d Catapult — thin gloss (anag) (9)
  17. 4 d American clay pigeon shooting (5)
  18. 5 d Sneeze sound (7)
  19. 6 d Hanging loose (6)
  20. 11 d Easily broken — gerbil fan (anag) (9)
  21. 13 d Senseless (7)
  22. 14 d Exclusion of the workforce by the management (7)
  23. 15 d Deploy sweet talk (7)
  24. 16 d Cask's plug (6)
  25. 18 d Poem lamenting the dead (5)

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