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  1. 1 a Granules used to make a yellow sauce (7,6)
  2. 8 a Sparkle (7)
  3. 9 a Of sound (5)
  4. 10 a Clamp down teeth (4)
  5. 11 a Short school break (4-4)
  6. 13 a Very tired (6)
  7. 14 a Very strict (6)
  8. 17 a Steep descent (8)
  9. 19 a Narrow strip of land almost surrounded by water (4)
  10. 21 a Unable to move (5)
  11. 22 a Pepys, for example (7)
  12. 24 a Granules used to make a yellow paste (7,6)
  13. 1 d Toothed wheel (3)
  14. 2 d Affected by something overwhelming (7)
  15. 3 d Initial contribution to the common pot (4)
  16. 4 d Cathedral city of north-east England (6)
  17. 5 d Made rigid and set into a conventional pattern (8)
  18. 6 d Needs (anag) — thick (5)
  19. 7 d Lying down (9)
  20. 10 d Ancient city on the Sea of Marmara (9)
  21. 12 d Long bitter row (8)
  22. 15 d Removed contents (7)
  23. 16 d Dodged (6)
  24. 18 d John Buchan used 39 of them (5)
  25. 20 d Circle of light around the moon (4)
  26. 23 d Sticky black stuff (3)

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