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  1. 1 a Coney (6)
  2. 4 a Elegant and fashionable (5)
  3. 7 a Hindu festival with lights, celebrating the end of the monsoon (6)
  4. 8 a Not divisible by two (6)
  5. 9 a Energetic dance — swing music (4)
  6. 10 a Plant with large brightly coloured flowers — cub is his (anag) (8)
  7. 12 a Consonant formed in Estuary English, making 'butter' sound as 'bu/er' — plot lost tag (anag) (7,4)
  8. 17 a Galaxy (5,3)
  9. 19 a Holy Father (4)
  10. 20 a Mountain peak where Noah's Ark landed (6)
  11. 21 a Person who plunders (6)
  12. 22 a Attempt to pull a fast one (3-2)
  13. 23 a Indifference to life (6)
  14. 1 d Barrier consisting of bars (7)
  15. 2 d Mexican agricultural labourer in the US — crab roe (anag) (7)
  16. 3 d Hibernian meat and veg dish (5,4)
  17. 4 d One of the two main branches of orthodox Islam (5)
  18. 5 d Without reference to anything else (Latin) (2,5)
  19. 6 d Frank and reliable (6)
  20. 11 d Ungainly (and painful) dive (5,4)
  21. 13 d Song for bedtime (7)
  22. 14 d Main support for a tree, growing straight downward from the trunk (7)
  23. 15 d Hot (7)
  24. 16 d Diacritical mark used in German (ä, ö, ü) (6)
  25. 18 d Hanker (5)

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