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  1. 1 a Menacing (8)
  2. 5 a Secular (4)
  3. 9 a Dromedary (5)
  4. 10 a Ramshackle (2,5)
  5. 11 a It keeps hair oil off the back of a chair (12)
  6. 13 a Nabokov's nymphet (6)
  7. 14 a Swiss house with sloping roof and wide eaves (6)
  8. 17 a Went from bad to worse (12)
  9. 20 a (Of time) passed (7)
  10. 21 a Audibly (5)
  11. 22 a Architect of Buckingham Palace, d. 1835 (4)
  12. 23 a Car on end (anag) — artillery (8)
  13. 1 d Dissenting clique (4)
  14. 2 d In name only (7)
  15. 3 d Concern for number one (4-8)
  16. 4 d Hebrew prophet who rebuked Ahab and Jezebel (6)
  17. 6 d First sign of the zodiac (5)
  18. 7 d Male singer operated on before puberty to retain his soprano voice (8)
  19. 8 d Relax after a crisis (7,5)
  20. 12 d Beat repeatedly with a heavy object (8)
  21. 15 d Now idle (anag) — short rest (3-4)
  22. 16 d Give thought to (6)
  23. 18 d Golf course hazards (5)
  24. 19 d Not in active use (4)

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