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  1. 1 a 24 cutter (7)
  2. 8 a Harmful look? (4,3)
  3. 9 a Labour standard? (3,4)
  4. 10 a Enlarge (7)
  5. 11 a In progress (5)
  6. 13 a Student of animal life (9)
  7. 15 a Small boiled sweet (like a fairy?) — gulp as rum (anag) (9)
  8. 18 a Saying widely assumed to be true (5)
  9. 21 a Continue for too long (7)
  10. 22 a Pistol, say (7)
  11. 23 a Rain lightly (7)
  12. 24 a Where doctors see their patients (7)
  13. 1 d Bashar al-Assad's country (5)
  14. 2 d Sound part of a transmitted signal (5)
  15. 3 d Annual award for journalism, literature, musical composition and public service, established 1917 (8,5)
  16. 4 d (Musically) smooth (6)
  17. 5 d RAF officer (4,9)
  18. 6 d From Saudi Arabia's southern neighbour? (6)
  19. 7 d Musical composition for seven performers (6)
  20. 12 d German woman (4)
  21. 14 d Grain tower (4)
  22. 15 d Unethical — dishonest (6)
  23. 16 d A Celtic language (6)
  24. 17 d Transparent optical devices (6)
  25. 19 d Spitting blood (or feathers) (5)
  26. 20 d Ancient Egyptian kept under wraps (5)

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