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  1. 1 a Wretchedness (6)
  2. 4 a Wooden-headed hammer (6)
  3. 9 a Become shrunken and wrinkled (7)
  4. 10 a Unaccompanied (5)
  5. 11 a Scare (anag) (5)
  6. 12 a Passage selected from a larger work (7)
  7. 13 a Three-card trick (4,3,4)
  8. 18 a Beethoven piano concerto, Op. 73 (7)
  9. 20 a Breast (5)
  10. 22 a Speedy (5)
  11. 23 a Amelia __ , aviator, d. 1937 (7)
  12. 24 a Most unrefined (6)
  13. 25 a State capital of New South Wales (6)
  14. 1 d Unlucky accident (6)
  15. 2 d More certain (5)
  16. 3 d Prepared for exams (7)
  17. 5 d Change to suit a new purpose (5)
  18. 6 d Skin-tight garment (7)
  19. 7 d Pact (6)
  20. 8 d Lincolnshire seaside resort — lecher's poet (anag) (11)
  21. 14 d Stated indirectly (7)
  22. 15 d Freedom (7)
  23. 16 d Gas-fired water heater (6)
  24. 17 d Forge (6)
  25. 19 d Evaluates the importance (of something) (5)
  26. 21 d Killed (5)

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