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  1. 1 a Recordings of popular songs (they're never original!) (5,8)
  2. 8 a It goes with chicken (and bacon!) (3)
  3. 9 a One engaged in mortal combat as entertainment in ancient Rome (9)
  4. 10 a Driving hazard (8)
  5. 11 a Anglo-Saxon king (with a dyke?) (4)
  6. 13 a ___ Gray, young man pictured in Oscar Wilde's 1890 novella (6)
  7. 14 a Fungal wood decay (3,3)
  8. 16 a Rise rapidly (4)
  9. 17 a Put forward (8)
  10. 20 a State of something subjected to very high temperatures (5,4)
  11. 21 a Category 4 Atlantic hurricane that hit Cuba and the US in August/September (3)
  12. 22 a Irish author of Waiting for Godot (6,7)
  13. 1 d Not costly (5)
  14. 2 d Diet adopted by Leo Tolstoy and George Bernard Shaw (13)
  15. 3 d To do with a particular part of the country (8)
  16. 4 d Part of a tooth (6)
  17. 5 d Read quickly (4)
  18. 6 d Rusty — picture of a cot (anag) (3,2,8)
  19. 7 d Retainer (7)
  20. 12 d Relating to the meaning of words (8)
  21. 13 d Repudiates (7)
  22. 15 d It describes how something is done (6)
  23. 18 d Rough initial version of a written work (5)
  24. 19 d Small, long-haired dog (abbr) (4)

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