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  1. 1 a Skewer for party food (8,5)
  2. 8 a Fruit-growing area (7)
  3. 9 a Silent and out of sight (5)
  4. 10 a ___ Dunn, author of Up the Junction (1963) (4)
  5. 11 a Fragile exterior (not to be walked on!) (8)
  6. 13 a Follow secretly (6)
  7. 14 a Pointless — ineffective (2,4)
  8. 17 a Tree-related (8)
  9. 19 a Present (4)
  10. 21 a Cultivated (5)
  11. 22 a Sell illegally produced products (7)
  12. 24 a It's the story of my life! (13)
  13. 1 d Speak lovingly (3)
  14. 2 d Virgin martyr, patron saint of music, killed c. AD 230 (7)
  15. 3 d Species of duck (4)
  16. 4 d Blue dye (6)
  17. 5 d Not the main event (8)
  18. 6 d (Fire)place (5)
  19. 7 d Information (9)
  20. 10 d Lost again (anag) — hankering for the past (9)
  21. 12 d Opener — Dr No book (anag) (8)
  22. 15 d Coincide to some extent (7)
  23. 16 d Hollow-stemmed tropical grass (6)
  24. 18 d (Encourage)ment (5)
  25. 20 d Serve a drink (4)
  26. 23 d Rope used to secure a tent (3)

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