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  1. 1 a Baleen — enable who? (anag) (9)
  2. 8 a Military alliance, created 1949 (4)
  3. 9 a Wrong (9)
  4. 10 a Extravagant promotion (4)
  5. 13 a Beam supporting floorboards (5)
  6. 15 a Delight greatly (in) (6)
  7. 16 a Eating (anag) — Moroccan spiced stew (6)
  8. 17 a Malodorous (6)
  9. 19 a Old salt (3,3)
  10. 20 a Irish poet who wrote The Lake Isle of Innisfree, d. 1939 (5)
  11. 21 a Scottish dance (4)
  12. 24 a Prestigious group of US private universities (3,6)
  13. 25 a Wine sediment (4)
  14. 26 a Abundant (9)
  15. 2 d Round of applause (4)
  16. 3 d Asian country (4)
  17. 4 d Accept a loan (6)
  18. 5 d Most kind (6)
  19. 6 d Colourful beetles (9)
  20. 7 d King or queen (9)
  21. 11 d Cylindrical cake (5,4)
  22. 12 d Children's TV programme, running since 1958 (4,5)
  23. 13 d Jovial (5)
  24. 14 d Things you ought not to tell? (5)
  25. 18 d Somerset town close to the Dorset border (6)
  26. 19 d Soviet Union's leader after Lenin's death in 1924 (6)
  27. 22 d Move slowly down the runway (4)
  28. 23 d Large ethnic group of eastern South Africa (4)

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