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  1. 1 a Lesser deity (7)
  2. 8 a Specify individually (7)
  3. 9 a Midshipmen's quarters in old warships (7)
  4. 10 a Withered with age (7)
  5. 11 a Car crash (5)
  6. 13 a Very much (9)
  7. 15 a Woolly coat (9)
  8. 18 a Like a rowing boat? (5)
  9. 21 a Get too big (for) (7)
  10. 22 a Catchphrase (3,4)
  11. 23 a Covered entrance to a building (7)
  12. 24 a Preferred course of action (3,2,2)
  13. 1 d Unearth (3,2)
  14. 2 d Mood disorder (5)
  15. 3 d Badly-behaved nursery rhyme boy (7,6)
  16. 4 d Numskull (6)
  17. 5 d First conqueror of Everest with Edmund Hillary (7,6)
  18. 6 d Prospective husband (6)
  19. 7 d Period of one's greatest productivity (6)
  20. 12 d Fertile (4)
  21. 14 d Nothing in tennis (4)
  22. 15 d Imprecise — loose (6)
  23. 16 d Restaurant (6)
  24. 17 d Try to gain favour by flattery (6)
  25. 19 d Massive herbivorous hoofed animal (abbr) (5)
  26. 20 d Because of (3,2)

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