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  1. 1 a Patient — legal action (4)
  2. 3 a Wind-eroded dry area of the United States (4,4)
  3. 8 a Threaten (4)
  4. 9 a Excessively instructive (8)
  5. 11 a Give up (10)
  6. 14 a Reject (6)
  7. 15 a Smoked breakfast fish (6)
  8. 17 a Novelty show with insects (4,6)
  9. 20 a Speech (8)
  10. 21 a Extinct bird of Mauritius (4)
  11. 22 a Bad behaviour (8)
  12. 23 a That seems unlikely! (2,2)
  13. 1 d Kind of beetle, a potato pest (8)
  14. 2 d Perfectly clean (8)
  15. 4 d Singular (6)
  16. 5 d Willingness to work together (4,6)
  17. 6 d Obscene word or expression (4)
  18. 7 d Wingless bloodsuckers (4)
  19. 10 d Machine for clearing flakes? (10)
  20. 12 d Convincing at first, but flawed (8)
  21. 13 d Rebuff (5,3)
  22. 16 d Rinse throat with mouthwash (6)
  23. 18 d (Of probability) remote (4)
  24. 19 d Responsibility (4)

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