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  1. 1 a Spears eaten as a vegetable (9)
  2. 8 a Taste of aged cheeses (5)
  3. 9 a Manchester United player and French actor/director, b. 1966 (7)
  4. 10 a Monster able to change appearance from human to wild animal and back again (8)
  5. 11 a Fencing sword (4)
  6. 13 a Account (6)
  7. 14 a Chemical compound used as fertiliser (6)
  8. 16 a Moored float (4)
  9. 17 a Climbing plant with showy flowers — Islam etc (anag) (8)
  10. 19 a Lenders at very high interest rates (7)
  11. 20 a Shade of green (5)
  12. 21 a Distant reaches of the physical universe (4,5)
  13. 1 d Sort of! (2,2,4)
  14. 2 d Vegetables preserved in brine or vinegar (6)
  15. 3 d Part of a ladder (4)
  16. 4 d RAF officer rank (5,7)
  17. 5 d Aside (5,7)
  18. 6 d Going away from home base (7,5)
  19. 7 d Butter, cheese etc (5,7)
  20. 12 d Damage done to wood by burrowing larvae (8)
  21. 15 d It became the 49th US state in 1959 (6)
  22. 18 d Jupiter's Greek counterpart (4)

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