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  1. 1 a Artificial and inferior (6)
  2. 4 a Sunglasses (informal) (6)
  3. 8 a Subject set for discussion (5)
  4. 9 a Prolonged artillery fire (7)
  5. 10 a Widow Twankey's principal boy (7)
  6. 11 a Execute mob-handed without trial (5)
  7. 12 a Competitor about whose abilities little is known (4,5)
  8. 17 a Spanish appetisers (5)
  9. 19 a Act of imputing blame or guilt (7)
  10. 21 a Most northerly town in the British Isles (7)
  11. 22 a Inhumanly cruel person (5)
  12. 23 a Savour — sauce (6)
  13. 24 a Ice over (6)
  14. 1 d Bit players (6)
  15. 2 d Attendant — wed star (anag) (7)
  16. 3 d Have a prevailing direction (5)
  17. 5 d Horse that races 'over the sticks' (7)
  18. 6 d Bleed (5)
  19. 7 d Smoulder (6)
  20. 9 d Criterion (9)
  21. 13 d Yokels (7)
  22. 14 d Trap (7)
  23. 15 d Alters (anag) — less fresh (6)
  24. 16 d Carefree and happy (6)
  25. 18 d Exposure to harm (5)
  26. 20 d Highland Games event (5)

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