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  1. 1 a Pompous talk (4)
  2. 3 a Embarrassed and lacking self-confidence (8)
  3. 8 a Skin spots (informal) (4)
  4. 9 a Broad (8)
  5. 11 a Breakfast cooker? (6,4)
  6. 14 a Awkward and inexperienced youth (6)
  7. 15 a Fixed number of lines forming a unit of a poem (6)
  8. 17 a Device for freezing water (3,7)
  9. 20 a Highest point (8)
  10. 21 a Rend (4)
  11. 22 a Think deeply (8)
  12. 23 a Stage (4)
  13. 1 d Stock term rendered meaningless by endless repetition (8)
  14. 2 d Catastrophe that cannot be insured against (3,2,3)
  15. 4 d 50th US state (6)
  16. 5 d Visual communication? (3,7)
  17. 6 d Long-legged wader (4)
  18. 7 d __ and kisses (4)
  19. 10 d Unaccompanied church music sung in unison — a ninth clap (anag) (10)
  20. 12 d Circuitous (8)
  21. 13 d Casually mention famous people you know to impress your audience (8)
  22. 16 d Lucky charm (6)
  23. 18 d Heroic and long (4)
  24. 19 d Close-fitting (4)

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