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  1. 1 a Part of a shoe (6)
  2. 4 a Confidence trickster — doctor (5)
  3. 7 a Social setting (6)
  4. 8 a Maximum (6)
  5. 9 a Skin infection (4)
  6. 10 a Civil partnership (8)
  7. 12 a Device mixing air and fuel (11)
  8. 17 a Tennis stroke (4,4)
  9. 19 a Evaluate some person or thing (4)
  10. 20 a Culmination (6)
  11. 21 a Palm leaf fibres used to make baskets, mats etc (6)
  12. 22 a Handsome (5)
  13. 23 a Ukrainian port city on the Black Sea (6)
  14. 1 d Incredibly stupid (7)
  15. 2 d Slide (7)
  16. 3 d Braggart (9)
  17. 4 d Scheduled host for the 2022 men's Football World Cup (5)
  18. 5 d Fruit with green flesh and leathery skin (7)
  19. 6 d Baby mog (6)
  20. 11 d Went in again (2-7)
  21. 13 d Displaying love (7)
  22. 14 d Price lists (7)
  23. 15 d Greek resin-flavoured wine (7)
  24. 16 d Proof of who one is (2,4)
  25. 18 d Squalid (5)

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