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1
a
Hottest time of the year (3,4)
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8
a
Small-time criminal (7)
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9
a
Fast ball bowled aggressively short (7)
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10
a
One in the know (7)
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11
a
The ___ Man, 1949 film about Harry Lime (5)
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13
a
Vacancy (9)
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15
a
Intermediary (2-7)
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18
a
Stealing (5)
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21
a
Initially (2,5)
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22
a
Joy or hate, for example (7)
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23
a
Knot of hair arranged at the back of the head (7)
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24
a
Hanging decorations of threads gathered at the top (7)
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1
d
Payment still owed (5)
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2
d
Spanish architect, greatest exponent of Catalan Modernism, d. 1926 (5)
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3
d
Often involved in mishaps — it concerned PA (anag) (8-5)
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4
d
Basis of a seafood cocktail? (6)
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5
d
Painstaking (13)
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6
d
Commit(ment) (6)
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7
d
Hurts (6)
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12
d
Visible indication of holiness (4)
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14
d
Ego (4)
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15
d
Hit at an angle and bounce off (6)
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16
d
Egghead (6)
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17
d
Full distance (6)
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19
d
Enforced absence (5)
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20
d
Chinese secret organisations (5)
