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