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  1. 1 a Children's game with bat and tennis ball (6,7)
  2. 8 a Unpleasantly harsh in sound (7)
  3. 9 a Swedish prize-giver (5)
  4. 10 a Unsmiling (4)
  5. 11 a Captain Nemo's submarine (8)
  6. 13 a Take-off and landing strip (6)
  7. 14 a King Edward, for example (6)
  8. 17 a Charmed (8)
  9. 19 a Flat mass of sea ice (4)
  10. 21 a Yellow fruit (it's also the answer!) (5)
  11. 22 a Compunction (7)
  12. 24 a Stubborn refusal to compromise (13)
  13. 1 d Sweet fleshy fruit, often dried (3)
  14. 2 d Avoidance (7)
  15. 3 d Plagiarise (4)
  16. 4 d Brandy (6)
  17. 5 d Mechanism firing up an internal-combustion engine (8)
  18. 6 d Capital of Afghanistan (5)
  19. 7 d Instrument to magnify the image of distant objects (9)
  20. 10 d Italian hero, who led his "Thousand Redshirts" against the Austrians, d. 1882 (9)
  21. 12 d Large Spanish estate (8)
  22. 15 d Aircraft's wing foil that controls lateral motion (7)
  23. 16 d Red playing cards (6)
  24. 18 d Full extent (5)
  25. 20 d Visible air pollution (4)
  26. 23 d Period immediately before (3)

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