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  1. 5 a Praiseworthy (11)
  2. 7 a Increase suddenly and significantly (4)
  3. 8 a Turncoat (8)
  4. 9 a Absent (7)
  5. 11 a Veracity (5)
  6. 13 a Rigid part of a bicycle (5)
  7. 14 a Author of The Jungle Book (7)
  8. 16 a News report (8)
  9. 17 a Animal with kids? (4)
  10. 18 a Utter obscenities (informal) (3,3,5)
  11. 1 d Light two-wheeled carriage (4)
  12. 2 d Looking fixedly (7)
  13. 3 d Inebriated (5)
  14. 4 d Bad comic verse (8)
  15. 5 d Montmartre nightspot (6,5)
  16. 6 d Area of Czechoslovakia ceded to Germany by the Munich Agreement, 1938 (11)
  17. 10 d Make less complex (8)
  18. 12 d Mock title for a self-important man (3,4)
  19. 15 d Unit of weight (5)
  20. 17 d Walking or running speed (4)

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