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  1. 1 a First meal (at Tiffany's?) (9)
  2. 8 a Gentlewoman (4)
  3. 9 a Greek equivalent of the Roman goddess Venus (9)
  4. 10 a Furnace for firing bricks (4)
  5. 13 a Neck and neck (5)
  6. 15 a Iterate (6)
  7. 16 a Gypsy (6)
  8. 17 a Pluto, for example (6)
  9. 19 a Cricketers' almanac (6)
  10. 20 a Footwear (5)
  11. 21 a Code word for G (4)
  12. 24 a Very bright — sparkling (9)
  13. 25 a Armoured fighting vehicle on caterpillar tracks (4)
  14. 26 a Red food dye (9)
  15. 2 d Ecstatic — engrossed (4)
  16. 3 d Israeli port city (4)
  17. 4 d Gifted (anag) (6)
  18. 5 d One posing for a portrait (6)
  19. 6 d 'Squashed fly' biscuit (9)
  20. 7 d North Korean capital (9)
  21. 11 d Spread widely — broadcast (9)
  22. 12 d Atrocious (9)
  23. 13 d Meres (5)
  24. 14 d American world heavyweight boxing champion for 12 years, d. 1981 (5)
  25. 18 d Most northerly town on the Scottish mainland (6)
  26. 19 d Riches (6)
  27. 22 d Write one's name (4)
  28. 23 d Pavlova or Karenina (4)

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