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  1. 1 a Overcast (6)
  2. 4 a German dramatist and poet who wrote The Threepenny Opera, d.1956 (6)
  3. 9 a Knock down (3,4)
  4. 10 a Climbing plant of the pea family, cultivated as fodder (5)
  5. 11 a Fault (5)
  6. 12 a Dashing and debonair young man (7)
  7. 13 a Regular failure to turn up for work (11)
  8. 18 a Ceremonially impure (7)
  9. 20 a Tree of the birch family (5)
  10. 22 a Immature form of an insect before metamorphosis (5)
  11. 23 a Flammable liquid hydrocarbon mixture (7)
  12. 24 a Highly motivated (6)
  13. 25 a Committed to memory (6)
  14. 1 d Large wader of the sandpiper family (6)
  15. 2 d Possessor (5)
  16. 3 d Varied (7)
  17. 5 d Bolero composer, d. 1937 (5)
  18. 6 d Short curved naval sword (7)
  19. 7 d South Pacific island where both Robert Louis Stevenson and Paul Gauguin spent time (6)
  20. 8 d Causing alarm (11)
  21. 14 d White rum, first produced in Cuba (7)
  22. 15 d Specimen (7)
  23. 16 d Greek mathematician, d. mid-3rd century BC (6)
  24. 17 d Out-and-out (6)
  25. 19 d Fill with high spirits (5)
  26. 21 d Discourage (5)

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