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  1. 1 a Right to vote in an election (9)
  2. 8 a Author of nonsense poems and limericks, d. 1888 (4)
  3. 9 a Elasticated band for fastening hair (9)
  4. 10 a Very hard wood (4)
  5. 13 a Capital of Ecuador (5)
  6. 15 a Darjeeling holder? (6)
  7. 16 a Repulsive (6)
  8. 17 a Wonderful (6)
  9. 19 a Hack (abbr) (6)
  10. 20 a Islam's holy book (5)
  11. 21 a Blink — shut-eye? (4)
  12. 24 a Farm worker (one who has lunch?) (9)
  13. 25 a Time taken for a specified planet to go round the sun (4)
  14. 26 a Surgery (9)
  15. 2 d Framework (4)
  16. 3 d Naming word (4)
  17. 4 d Reflex spasm of the diaphragm, producing a gulping sound (6)
  18. 5 d Asian religion — no hits (anag) (6)
  19. 6 d Person one detests — ie not beer (anag) (4,5)
  20. 7 d Restraint used to slow a wheel's rotation (5,4)
  21. 11 d People who hide on board, hoping not to pay for the trip (9)
  22. 12 d Someone from Dar es Salaam? (9)
  23. 13 d Oddity (5)
  24. 14 d Largest UK cinema chain (5)
  25. 18 d Small measure of semi-solid food (6)
  26. 19 d Car — cat (6)
  27. 22 d Seal(ed) (4)
  28. 23 d Othello's nemesis (4)

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