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  1. 1 a Take by surprise (5,8)
  2. 8 a Rack by a sink for letting crockery dry (7)
  3. 9 a Scruffs of the neck (5)
  4. 10 a Bundle (of hay?) (4)
  5. 11 a Lazy (4-4)
  6. 13 a Cloth in which a body is wrapped for burial (6)
  7. 14 a Decapitate (6)
  8. 17 a Indirect reference (8)
  9. 19 a Level (4)
  10. 21 a Cut into cubes (5)
  11. 22 a Form a mental picture (7)
  12. 24 a Without compunction, pity, or compassion (13)
  13. 1 d Rotter (3)
  14. 2 d Short film advertising a forthcoming feature (7)
  15. 3 d Suspend (4)
  16. 4 d Constricted (6)
  17. 5 d Itinerant (8)
  18. 6 d Waterway where the current runs very fast (5)
  19. 7 d Strap to hold up a stocking (9)
  20. 10 d Onlooker (9)
  21. 12 d Someone not accepted by society (8)
  22. 15 d Draws out (7)
  23. 16 d Relating to cattle (6)
  24. 18 d Temporary replacement doctor (5)
  25. 20 d Sugar merchant and art gallery philanthropist, founder, d. 1899 (4)
  26. 23 d Cathedral city in East Anglia (3)

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