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  1. 1 a Knock off (6)
  2. 4 a Detestable (6)
  3. 9 a Small cube of fried bread (7)
  4. 10 a Ate (5)
  5. 11 a Make painstaking enquiries (into something) (5)
  6. 12 a Kill (7)
  7. 13 a By its very nature (11)
  8. 18 a Pig hurt (anag) — noble (7)
  9. 20 a Lacerate (5)
  10. 22 a Alec's (anag) — graduation (5)
  11. 23 a Malicious hostility (7)
  12. 24 a Mankind (6)
  13. 25 a Scurry — small car (6)
  14. 1 d Reach a conclusion (6)
  15. 2 d Whimsically comical (5)
  16. 3 d Road safety device (7)
  17. 5 d Needless (5)
  18. 6 d Voluptuous (7)
  19. 7 d Progress unsteadily (due to age?) (6)
  20. 8 d Ceremony of conferring honours of rank on a person (11)
  21. 14 d Bitter derision (7)
  22. 15 d Failure to be there (7)
  23. 16 d Sudden illegal acquisition of power (6)
  24. 17 d Accumulation of electricity (6)
  25. 19 d Envious — environmentalist (5)
  26. 21 d Take as one's own (5)

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