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  1. 1 a Slit in the back of a jacket (4)
  2. 3 a Particular (8)
  3. 9 a Reading stand (7)
  4. 10 a Plastic — records (5)
  5. 11 a Nitwit (5)
  6. 12 a Chicken (6)
  7. 14 a A little tin god (anag) — small bird (4-6,3)
  8. 17 a Middle Eastern language (6)
  9. 19 a Not so many (5)
  10. 22 a ___ Newton, English physicist, d. 1727 (5)
  11. 23 a Unfriendliness (3,4)
  12. 24 a Evacuation — gardenia (anag) (8)
  13. 25 a Dressed (4)
  14. 1 d Liable to unpredictable change (8)
  15. 2 d Mother-of-pearl (5)
  16. 4 d Unwillingness to spend money (5-8)
  17. 5 d Quibble (5)
  18. 6 d Ascertain (4,3)
  19. 7 d Basic biological unit (4)
  20. 8 d Tyrant (6)
  21. 13 d Taken aback (8)
  22. 15 d Buddhists' transcendental state (7)
  23. 16 d Surround completely (6)
  24. 18 d Food that can be streaky (5)
  25. 20 d Turn round rapidly (5)
  26. 21 d Pegged out (4)

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