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  1. 1 a Standing — speaking (2,4,4)
  2. 7 a Money saved for the future (4,3)
  3. 8 a First in order of importance (5)
  4. 10 a Otherwise (4)
  5. 11 a Instrument — litre can (anag) (8)
  6. 13 a Purify (6)
  7. 15 a Someone on work experience? (6)
  8. 17 a Distinction — high ground (8)
  9. 18 a Half-baked — fly-by-night mammals (4)
  10. 21 a Teach — followers (5)
  11. 22 a In question (2,5)
  12. 23 a Determined to do something at all costs (4-4,2)
  13. 1 d Fertile patch in a desert (5)
  14. 2 d Do what one is told (4)
  15. 3 d Overwhelm (6)
  16. 4 d Conspicuously outrageous (8)
  17. 5 d Delete for ever (7)
  18. 6 d Word or phrase expressing affection (10)
  19. 9 d Greatly surprised (10)
  20. 12 d Hellish (8)
  21. 14 d Warship smaller than a destroyer (7)
  22. 16 d Embarrassing predicament (informal) (6)
  23. 19 d Pyromania (5)
  24. 20 d A just detectable amount (4)

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