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  1. 1 a It capital is Windhoek (7)
  2. 8 a Bottle (7)
  3. 9 a Cardinale, b. 1938 or Winkleman, b. 1972 (7)
  4. 10 a Firmly embedded (4-3)
  5. 11 a Japanese dish of cold rice balls (5)
  6. 13 a Slender non-stinging insect with iridescent wings (9)
  7. 15 a Game played on one's own ground (4,5)
  8. 18 a Boredom (5)
  9. 21 a Of part of the eye — reliant (anag) (7)
  10. 22 a Singing popular songs to recorded music (7)
  11. 23 a Degree-granting institution (7)
  12. 24 a Cut open (7)
  13. 1 d Drinks straight from the bottle (informal) (5)
  14. 2 d Method (5)
  15. 3 d Doctor's ways? (7,6)
  16. 4 d Former French colony, founded 1604, now part of Nova Scotia (6)
  17. 5 d Alice in Wonderland's foul-tempered monarch (5,2,6)
  18. 6 d Compact group of mountains (6)
  19. 7 d Lookout (6)
  20. 12 d Release (4)
  21. 14 d Post usually occupied by another person (4)
  22. 15 d Roman poet and satirist, d. 8 BC (6)
  23. 16 d Spirit and resilience (6)
  24. 17 d Spilled the beans (6)
  25. 19 d Hangman's rope (5)
  26. 20 d Awkward (5)

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