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  1. 1 a Stout (6)
  2. 4 a Rain cloud (6)
  3. 9 a Hopeless feeling (7)
  4. 10 a Tubular pasta (5)
  5. 11 a Sheer (5)
  6. 12 a Knife for the end of a rifle (7)
  7. 13 a No-frills (11)
  8. 18 a Busy (2,3,2)
  9. 20 a Means of mass communication (5)
  10. 22 a Hybrid beasts of burden (5)
  11. 23 a Overshadow (7)
  12. 24 a Adage (6)
  13. 25 a Complimentary (6)
  14. 1 d Peppery root vegetable (6)
  15. 2 d Tack — abets (anag) (5)
  16. 3 d Knife used in dissection (7)
  17. 5 d Hint (5)
  18. 6 d Windfall (7)
  19. 7 d Carry out an investigation (6)
  20. 8 d Bin operator (anag) — one's working on a trial basis (11)
  21. 14 d Altogether (7)
  22. 15 d Kind of rose (7)
  23. 16 d Universe (6)
  24. 17 d Documentation (6)
  25. 19 d Cathedral city of North Rhine-Westphalia, seat of the Krupp industrial dynasty (5)
  26. 21 d Storage facility (5)

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