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  1. 1 a Popular starter (5,8)
  2. 8 a Low wall along a roof edge (7)
  3. 9 a Lowest point (5)
  4. 10 a Noise of a small object dropping into water (4)
  5. 11 a Old campaigner (8)
  6. 13 a Nervously restrained laugh (6)
  7. 14 a Hitchcock's 1960 classic (6)
  8. 17 a Event (8)
  9. 19 a Expression of grief (4)
  10. 21 a Large flow of liquid (5)
  11. 22 a Those leaving their own country for political reasons (7)
  12. 24 a Pell-mell (6-7)
  13. 1 d Get-up-and-go (3)
  14. 2 d Par trio (anag) — Charles de Gaulle, say (7)
  15. 3 d Small bites (4)
  16. 4 d Robin Hood figure? (6)
  17. 5 d Capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (8)
  18. 6 d Birch relative (5)
  19. 7 d Relating to theft (9)
  20. 10 d Abraham or Isaac, perhaps (9)
  21. 12 d French cop (8)
  22. 15 d Guilty party (7)
  23. 16 d Except if (6)
  24. 18 d Not rude (5)
  25. 20 d Gripper — fault (4)
  26. 23 d Title for a baronet (3)

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